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Post-colonial play 'A Tempest' by Aime Cesaire is interpreted with Frantz Fanon's psychology in 'Black Skin White Masks'.
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‘A Tempest’ with Fanon’s Psychology
Paper: Post-colonial literaturePresented By: Poojaba JadejaRoll No.: 20Year: 2014, semester 3rd
Submitted to: Smt. S.B. Guardy Department of English, Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
‘A Tempest’ with Frantz Fanon’s psychology
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
Language• Caliban - speaking his language
• Ariel’s acceptance
“To speak a language is to appropriate it’s world and culture”
Frantz Fanon (chap.1)
Desire for white love
• Caliban’s dreaming of Miranda
• Black man’s love for white woman/love
• Revenge and arrogance (Chap. 3)
Projected identity
• Immoral• Sexually passionate• White man’s fear• “something to be saved
from, to escape” (chap. 6)
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)
Inferiority/ superiority complexes
•Prospero’s superiority complex
•Ariel’s inferiority complex
-(Chap. 4)
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)
Thank You