Post-colonial play 'A Tempest' by Aime Cesaire is interpreted with Frantz Fanon's psychology in 'Black Skin White Masks'.

1. ‘A Tempest’ with
Fanon’s Psychology
Paper: Post-colonial literature
Presented By: Poojaba Jadeja
Roll No.: 20
Year: 2014, semester 3rd
Submitted to: Smt. S.B. Guardy
Department of English, Maharaja
Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University

2. ‘A Tempest’ with
Frantz Fanon’s psychology

3. Limitations
• Psychology of Black people of France
after colonization
• Mentality of Blacks as accepting
colonized culture
• A Tempest as rebel against colonizer
• Limited characters, place and setting

4. Language
• Caliban - speaking his language
• Ariel’s acceptance
“To speak a language is to
appropriate it’s world and
culture”
Frantz Fanon
(chap.1)

5. Desire for white love
• Caliban’s dreaming of
Miranda
• Black man’s love for white
woman/love
• Revenge and arrogance
(Chap. 3)

6. Projected identity
• Immoral
• Sexually passionate
• White man’s fear
• “something to be saved
from, to escape”
(chap. 6)

7. Search for identity
• Doesn’t have separate
identity
• “Instead of being a
person, a man, an
individual, he is black
man, an object”
(Chap. 5)

8. Inferiority/ superiority complexes
• Prospero’s
superiority
complex
• Ariel’s
inferiority
complex
-(Chap. 4)

9. Struggle for human existence
• Calian is considered as
an animal
• “Black men are seen
little better than
animals.”
(chap. 6)
• “The Negro is an animal,
the Negro is ugly, Always
a negro never a man”
(chap. 5)

10. Thank You