Black Skin White Mask Chapter 5 "The Lived experience of the black man" & 7 "The...

Topic: Black Skin White Mask chapters 5 and 7

Name: Jinal B. ParmarRoll no:11Paper no: 11 Post-Colonial studiesM. A. Semester: 3Year: 2014-15PG Enrolment no: PG13101025Email ID: jinal.parmar989883@gmail.comSubmitted to: Department of English Smt. S. B. Gardi M. K. Bhavnagar University Dt: 3/10/2014

Black Skin White Mask

Introduction:• BSWM is a sociological study of the psychology of racism and dehumanization inherent to colonial domination

• Fanon describes that Black people experience in the White world

• Fanon talks about, self-perception of the Black Subject who has lost his native cultural origin, and embraced the culture of the Mother Country

• He also talks about the inferiority complex in the mind of the Black subject

“For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white” -Frantz Fanon

“However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white” -Frantz Fanon

Black Skin White Mask Chapter-5

“The Lived Experience of the Black Man”

• In this chapter Fanon argues about his own fact of Blackness and his struggle he endured such the psychologically alientaly effects of colonialism and racism

• Fanon was a Martinican psychiatrist but in the White society, “He is seen not as Dr. Fanon but as Black man”

• In this racist society, Fanon argues, Black people “experience being through others”

• “Dirty nigger!” Or simply, “Look, a Negro!”

• Fanon’s experience as Black man in the white society feels inferiority and says “Always a Negro, never a man”

• Fanon describe as a “real dialect between my body and the world”

• Fanon expresses his feeling of inferiority and says , “Sin is Black as Virtue is White”

• In the White world he himself considered as he is Wretch

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“The Black Man and Recognition”

Section A

The Negro and Adler

Chapter-7 “The Black Man and Recognition”

Section-A“The Negro and Adler”

• In this section fanon applies Adler’s personality theory to the ‘Antillean Negro’

• How Antillean Negro act towards each other

• Fanon says, that “The question is always whether he is less intelligent than I, blacker than I, less respectable than I” • The “question of value” that plagues the neurotic Antillean Negro is historically constructed and has arisen out of colonialism.

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• Fanon talks about the role colonial education

• “It is because the Negro belongs to an “inferior” race that he seeks to be like the superior race”

• The pattern of the white man

Section –B“The Negro and the Hegel”

• In the second section Fanon applies Hegel’s Master and Slave dialectic

• The ‘Hegelian dialectic’ offers, Fanon argues, an explanation of what distinguishes “human reality” from “natural reality”

• “Man is human only to the extent to which he tries to impose his existence on another man in order to be recognized by him”

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• Black men fight for an equal place in society

• The White man considers Black men as “machine-animal-men”

• Fanon says, “There is always resentment in a reaction”

• Nietzsche points out that in the latter Fanon reminds us there is always a great deal of “resentment”

• The unequal power relations between the slave and the Master means that even if the Master had to confer upon the slave its recognition the power balance would not have shifted

• Fanon says that “it is in the degree to which I go beyond my own immediate being that I apprehend the existence of the other as a natural and more than natural reality”

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White men Negro

Slave

Inferior

Master

Superior

Conclusion

• In these both chapters Fanons describe the marginalization of Black people and colonizer White world

• In this Book BSWM Fanon talks about his own experience and struggle as a Black man

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