chapter-3 : the man of color and the white women
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Chapter-3 : The Man of Color and the white women
Name : Radha GhevariyaRoll No: 22Paper : (11) The Postcolonial LiteratureEnrollment No. : PG14101013Year : 2015- ‘16Email: [email protected] to : Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English Bhavnagar University
Introduction
*Frantz Fanon was a French Philosopher revolutionary and author .* Fanon is known as a radical humanist.* In 1952, fanon wrote his first book, Black skin, White Masks, an analysis of the negative psychological effect of colonial subjugation upon black people.
The Book “Black Skin, White Masks”
* “Black Skin , White Masks”(1952) is a book about the mindset or psychology of racism by Franz Fanon.
* He speaks of the divided self perception of the black subject.
* Fanon describes that Black people experience in the White world
Chapter-3 : The Man of Color and the White Woman
‘Out of the blackest part of my soul, across the zebra
striping of my mind, surges this desire to be suddenly white.’
About Chapter
* A white female just because he was raised around whites so he seemed less black . * They go with them not out of love but to deal with their own race. * Men want to be white too-or at least prove they are equal to whites . * Here black men wants to join white women .
For Example
• Prejudices that make him not want to join a white man’s world .
• As a proud and black skin
• Whites represent wealth ,beauty , intelligence and virtue .The feeling of self inflicted .
Rene Maran’s Work’s
“Unhomme pareil aux autres”(1947)
Jean Veneuse
Conclusion
“I am worthy of a white love .I
am loved like a white man .I am a white man”
