This document provides an overview and summary of Frantz Fanon's seminal work "Black Skin, White Masks". It discusses Fanon's life and background, his major works, and provides a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the key themes and topics covered in each chapter of "Black Skin, White Masks", including the inferiority complex experienced by black people in a white world and their desire to take on white identities and culture. The document was submitted as part of a university course on postcolonial literature.

1. BLACK SKIN WHITE MASK
CRITICAL OVERVIEW
Name: Nasim Gaha
Roll no: 22
Sem-3
Paper no:11 ( The postcolonial Literature)
Email id: gahanasim786@gmail.com.
Enrollment no : 2069108420190014
Submitted to Department of English MKUBU.

2. ABOUT FRANTZ FANON
 He was born in 20
July 1925,
 He was died 6
December 1961,
 He was a French
west Indian
psychiatrist and
political
philosopher.

3. FAMOUS WORKS
1) Black skin White
Mask- 1925,
2) A dying colonialism-
1959,
3) Wretched of the earth-
1961,
4) Toward the African
revolution-1964,

4. ABOUT BLACK SKIN WHITE MASK
 The book is Written in the style of
auto-theory in which fanon shares his
own experience .
 Fanon describes that black people
experience in the white word.
 He also talks about the inferiority
complex in the mind of the Black
subject.
 Black skin white masks written in
1952;
 Divided in to the 8 part.
 Mask is the central theme in the
writing of the 20th century writer.

5. BLACK SKIN WHITE MASK DIVIDED INTO EIGHT
CHAPTER

6. CHAPTER-1 THE BLACK MAN AND LANGUAGE
 Inferiors v/s superior,
 Language of power,
 Language of the
colonizer and the
language of the
colonized people.
 Feeling and desire to
learn language spoken
by French man.
 Racism.

7. CHAPTER-2 WOMAN OF COLOR AND THE WHITE MAN
 The idea of blackness,
 The colonized woman
look’ down on their own
. Race and deep down
want to be white.
 In “The Bluest Eye” and
“Toni Morrison” We find
a Black girls desire fun
the blue eyes of white
men and woman.

8. CHAPTER-3 THE MAN OF COLOR AND THE WHITE WOMAN
 The condition of black
man.
 Deals with the mental
condition of black man
and their desire to be
white.
 Why Whiteness is
something goodness?
 Whiteness is speared as
a something goodness
and they believe that
whiteness gives them
higher position in society.

9. CHEPTER-4 THE SO- CALLED DEPENDENCY COMPLEX OF THE COLONIZED
 Colonialism produce an inferiority complex
in the mind of the black subject, who then
will try to appropriate and imitate the culture
of the colonizer.
 The writer argues against fanon’s view that
people of colonizer have a deep desire for
white rule , that those who oppose it to do
not have a secure sense of self that they
have a chip on their shoulder.

10. CONCLUSION
 Black skin white mask, fanon argued that
colonialism dehumanized the native.
 The black there fore tries to be more like that
desirable white man. He put’s on white mask.
 The white man is the master and represents
an object that is to be feared and desired.