Name : Pooja Byhaliya K.Paper No. 11(Post Colonial Literature)Enrolment no. PG15101002

Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji

Bhavnagar University

“Black skin White mask”-Postcolonial aaspects.

Index

What is Post colonialism? Meaning of Postcolonialism The title – “ Black skin white mask” Post colonialism in the Black skin white Mask

What puts the “post” in Postcolonialism?

• Considering “post” is a prefix meaning after, we need to first discuss the history behind colonialism.

What is colonialism?An extension of a nations rule over

territory beyond its bordersa population that is subjected to the

political domination of another population.

Themes that link to Postcolonial Theory

Postcolonial Theory

Power

Subjectivity

Identity

Race

Nations and nationalityLeadership

Control

Frantz Fanon

Novel-“Black skin white mask”

Consider as the post colonial work. This book is worth reading since

Fanon’s understanding of white French racism in early 1950 and it can also helps to understand white American racism in the 2010s.

Presented many problems of the Black man and white men.

Superiority and

inferiority

Race and states of

mind.

Psychological

dimension of race.

Colour hegemony over the

other.

Post colonialism in the Black skin White Mask.

Major problems like:

Inferiority complex. - inferior to the white people. The Identity problems.-The Name

sake Strong Desire. - to marry with white women or men. Consider as ‘other Etc..

Example of the Identity Problem:

D L I IA TS EP RO AR TA U R E

Movie Examples:

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