1. Concept behind the title ‘Black
skin , White Masks’.
paper: ‘the postcolonial
Literature’.
S. t. d: M.A(sem-3)
Roll.No:11
Presented by:
kunvarani Nidhi k
Allotted to:
Department of English
Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavsinhji University .
Bhavnagar

2.  Introduction: ‘Black skin,
White Masks’.’
‘
Black skin, White Masks’ written
by Frantz Fanon in 1952.
‘The title of the novel is itself
suggestive.’ Black Skin, White
Masks’.
Divided in to the 8 parts.
206 pages.
‘Masks’ is the Central theme in
the writing of the 20th century
writers.

3.  Divided in to the 8 Parts:
‘
!.’The Black man and Language.’
2.’The Woman of color and the
Whiteman’.
3. The man of color and the white
woman.
4.The so-called Dependency Complex of
the Colonized
5.The Lived Experience of
the Black Skin.
6.The Black man and the
Psychopathology.
7.The Black Man and
Recognition.
8.Way of Conclusion.:

4. Examples of ‘Masks’ based writing of
th century.
the 20
• Examples:
Robert Frost’s poem ‘Design’.
The ‘Mourning Becomes Electra’ by Eugene O’Neill.
‘The Birthday Party’ by Samuel Beckett.
‘A Tempest’.

5. Concept behind the title : ‘Black Skin, White
Masks’.
‘Colonialism’
Fanon’s used of Language.
Binary Opposition.

6.  The Beginning Quote:
“ I am talking about
millions of men whom
they have knowingly
instilled with fear and a
Complex of
inferiority, whom they
have trained to
tremble, to kneel and
behave like flunkeys”.
-A. Cessaire Discouse on
Colonialism
Introduction of the ’Black
Skin, White Masks.’( p. xi)

7. Dialogues
What does man want?
What does the black man want?
Running the risk of angering my black
brothers, I shall say that a Black is not a man.
-Introduction of the ‘black skin, White
masks’.

8. Conti….
 For after all, When we read in ‘I Am a Martinician Woman” I Would have liked to marry, but
with a white man, Only, a colored Woman is never quite respectable in the eyes of a White
man- even if he loves her, I knew well.”
- ‘Black Skin, White Masks’(p.25)
 “All I Know is that he had blue eyes, blond hair, a pale Complexion and I loved him.”
- Mayotte (p.25)
 By loving me ,she proves to me that I am worthy of a white love. I am loved like a white
man.
-(P.45)
 European Civilization and it’s agents of the highest, caliber are responsible for colonial
racism.
-Cessaire (p.70)

9.  Conti…..

His body is black: his tongue is black ;his soul must be black too”.
-Antillean his fellow lander(p.157)
 If I cannot change my color,
I want Adventure.
-Juan(p.189)
 The white man is a slave who was allowed to assume a master’s attitude.
-(p.194)
 My final Prayer:
O my body, always make me a man who question.
-(p.206)

10. Any question…..????

11. There is nothing like ,Good or bad. But, It’s thinking that makes it so.
-Shakespeare in “Hamlet”
References:
Works Cited
Frantz, Fanon. 'Black Skin, White Masks'. New York: Grove press, 1952.
Class-notes