Presentation By: Munjpara. Maitri. RRoll No. : 17Semester: 3rd

Year: 2013-15Paper Name: The Post- Colonial LiteratureTopic: Psychological Study of Mulatto in Black skin, White MaskSubmitted To: Department of English. M. K. B. U.

Introduction of Frantz Fanon: He was a Afro-French Psychiatrist, Philosopher, Revolutionary and writer.His was a child of a Mulatto. He wrote his first book “Black Skin, White Masks” in France during 1952. The manuscript was the doctoral dissertation, submitted at Lyon, entitled "Essay on the Disalienation of the Black"; the rejection of the dissertation prompted Fanon to publish it as a book.

What is Psychological?• Of, affecting, or arising in the mind; related to the mental and emotional state of a person.• Ex: Women’s suffering is psychological and physical now a days.

What is Mulatto?• A Mulatto is a person who has both Negro and European ancestry.• The term “mulatto” is probably derived from the Portuguese and Spanish word mulato, which itself is derived from mula, or mule (from Old Spanish; from Latinmūlus). • The politically-correct term for a person of

mixed race today is “biracial”.• Mulatto technically referred to someone half-black and half-white .

Psychology of Mulatto:

Normal child- Normal family

Become Normal man for society

Mulatto child- Normal family

Become Abnormal for society

Inferiority begins from childhood

Mulatto

Biological

Black skin= Evil man

“Handsome Negro”= Illusion

Phobogenic

Women= Phobia of Negro

Negro is the Genital.Stands for Evil for society.

• Example in reference with Jew.

“His body is black. His language is black, his soul must be black too.”

• One Antillean to another Antillean.

Adopts White men’s

attitude

Negro’s feeling of equality is conscious

White men Treatment

Behave as an older to the birth of

younger

Examples By Fanon:• When he was in military service, he got opportunity to observe the behaviour of white women. Their faces were filled with fear.• While reading children’s newspaper, He read a caption to a picture in which a young black boy was showing a Negro village to three or four white scouts.

Conclusion:•Negro is universalizing himself.•“I am a Frenchman. I’m in interested in French culture, civilization”

Thank You…..

Source:•Original Text of Black skin, white mask•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Skin,_White_Masks