Paper no: The Postcolonial Literature. Topic: Post colonialism in Black Skin and White Mask. I am submitted this presentation to Department Of English Dr Dilip Barad.

1. Postcolonialism in Black Skin and White
Mask
Paper no:11 The Postcolonial Literature.
Prepared by : Kavita. D . Mehta
Semester:3
Enrollment no:2069108420170020
S.M.T S.B Gardi Department of English
Maharaja Krishnkumarsihji Bhavnagar
university

2. What is Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism or postcolonial
studies is an academic discipline
that analyzes, explains and
responds to the culture legacy of
colonialism and imperialism.
Postcolonialism speaks about
the human consequences of
external control and economic
exploitation of native people
and their lands.

3. Postcolonialism is the outlook and studies as
responses to colonial subjugation of European
or Western to third and forth world that
emerged in 70’s.
However, it’s not only talking about western
colonial subjugation but also various reality of
injustice, culture and gender domination,
sexual orientation issues, social class,
subaltern people experiences, etc
Nowadays , aspect of Postcolonialism can be
found not only in sciences concerning history,
literature and politics, but also in approach to
culture and identity.

5. About The Black skin and White Mask
“Black Skin and White
Mask”(1952) is a book about the
mindset or psychology of Racism
by Frantz Fanon, a martinician
psychiatrist and black, post
colonialist thinker.
The book looks at what goes
through the minds of black and
white under the conditions of
white rule and the strange effects
that has, especially on black
people.

7. In this eight chapter, fanon talks about
psychology of white colonizers and black
people’s desire to be like white men.
He talk about issue of language, marriage
between white and black and psychology
behind it, white mindset of ruling, black’s
inequality and struggle for human existence. He
explain his all argument of psychology with real
examples of his surrounding.
“Franz Fanon does not want to be a Black man;
he want to be a man, plain and simple”.

9. The reflection of Postcolonialism is show
through the above points. The white man
portraits as superior class and have the power
of rule over the other country and the society.
 On the other sides the black man or white
people always live under the rule of white
people. Even he doesn’t have any power to
rule over the other people.

10. The book looks at what goes
through the minds of black and
white rule and the strange
effects that has, especially on
Black people his book Black
skin and white masks explore
the effects upon colonialism.
Fanon argued that colonialism
dehumanized the native. This
process was through that the
black man can see himself only
as the black image of the white
man.
“The Negro is not any more
than the white man.”

11.  The white man is the master, and represents
an object that is to be feared and desired.
 The black therefore tries to be more like the
white man master. He puts on “White Mask”.
 The reflection of Postcolonialism is shown
through the many points of racism.
 The white man portraits as superior class and
have the power of rule over other country and
the society.

12. On the other sides the black man or the
people always live under the rule of white
man. Even he doesn’t have ant power to rule
over other people.
Black woman look down on own race, wish to
be white, or at least prove themselves equal
to white man.
Always Black never human.
White people see black people as bodies, so
they appear mindset, sexual human beings.

13. Conclusion
The ambitiousness of ‘Black skin and, white mask’
is rooted in its attempt to deal with the way in
which the psychical or fantastical reality of race
might be more consequential than the empirical
one. Because the connotations with the color
blacks share the stereotypes as much as whites,
so desalination can never mean a simple negation
of what is back.