2. INTRODUCTION
• Name :- Charmi Vyas
• Roll no. :- 3
• Email id :- cmvyas1996@gmail.com
• Paper name :- 11, The Post-Colonial Literature
• Topic :- Post colonialism in black skin, white mask
• Submitted To :- Department of English, M.K.B.U
3. INTRODUCTION
• “ Black skin , white mask”
(1952) is a book about the
mind set or psychology of
racism by Frantz Fanon. He
was psychiatrist and post
colonial thinker.
4. WHAT IS POST-COLONIALISM ?
• Post - colonialism or postcolonial studies is the academic
study of the cultural legacy of colonialism or imperialism,
focusing on the human consequences of the control and
exploitation of colonized people and their land.
• Post colonial literature seek to address the ways in which non –
European literatures and cultures have been marginalized s an
effect of colonial rule, and to possible, modes of resistance,
retrieval and reversal of their own pre- colonial pasts.
• It is a literature of resistance, anger, protest and hope. It seek
to understand history so as plan for the future.
5. POST-COLONIALISM IN THE BLACK SKIN
WHITE MASK
• The book looks that what is
going on in the minds of
blacks and whites under the
condition of white rule and
the strange effects that has,
especially on black people.
6. Review of Black Skin, White
Mask According to Post-
Colonialism Theory
7. FANON THE BLACK MAN AND LANGUAGE
• If black can not adopted the
polishing language of whites,
black men are unintelligent.
• Colonizer language means
language of intelligent,
language of power.
8. THE WOMEN OF COLURE AND WHITE MAN
• The black women is attracted
by whites not because of love
but because of admittance to
the white world.
• Black women want to entre to
the group of white people.
9. THE MAN OF COLURE AND WHITE WOMEN
• Black men keep relationship
with white women because
they wanted to be considered
equal to the white.
• Jean Veneuse, the hero of an
autobiographical novel by
Rene Maran, “Un homme paril
autres” (1947).
10. SO CALLED – DEPENDENCE OF COLONISED
• It is the deep desire to white
rule it shows that the white
people are bourn to rule, the
person to oppose the white
rule do not have secure sense
of self.
11. LIVED EXPERIENCE OF BLACK
MAN
• IT SHOWS THAT BLACK MANS ARE NOT FULLY
HUMAN.
• THE WHITE MAN CONSIDERS BLACK AS
“ MACHINE-ANIMAL-MEN.”
• IT SHOWS SUPERIORITY COMPLEX OF WHITE
MANS.
• EXANPLE :-
• ROBINSON CRUSOE
• HERMIONE GRANGER, SERIES OF HARRY
POTTER.
12. THE BLACK MAN AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
• Black man are viewed body's
which makes them seen like
mind-less, animals being.
• Black man in the white
society feels inferiority and
says always ‘ Negro never a
man’.
13. BLACK MAN AND RECOGNISE
• Black man wonts that
recognition as equal being to
the white.
• Sojourner truth fought a lot
to give an identity of the
black man in America by her
efforts the black people of
America got their identity.
14. MENTALITY OF SOCIETY
BLAC
K
• Ugliness
• Unintelligence
• Vices
• Inferiority
WHITE
• Beauty
• Intelligence
• Virtues
• Superiority
15. • IT IS NOTABLE THAT TRANSFORMATION OF MICHAEL JACKSON FROM
BLACK TO WHITE SHOULD ALSO BE UNDERSTOOD WITH THE
REFERENCE TO CRAVING TO WHITE SKIN.
• DESIRE FOR BLUE EYE, BLACK SKIN IS SYMBOL OF UGLINESS.
• BLACK CAT SYMBOL OF BAD LUCK
16. CONCLUSION
• Skin is not the thing to judge a person.
• Intellectuality is beyond the skin colour.
• Angel were never shown as black but their soul are same as
black people.
