Black Skin ,White Mask

What is Post colonialism ?

     

A study of post colonial literature must begin with the historical contexts of colonialism, contexts that are constantly and frighteningly shot through violence.  The violence of colonialism – cultural, economic, political and military - is so integral to the history of the ‘Third World’ nation  that no literature or critical approach has been able to ignore it.

The book looks at what goes through the minds of blacks and whites under the conditions of white rule and the strange effects that has, especially on black people. His book Black Skin, White Masks explore the effects upon colonialism .

In first chapter the author discusses that if a black person does not learn the white man’s language perfectly, he is unintelligent yes if he does learn it perfectly, he has washed his brain in the world of racial ideology. 

There are two such women: the Negroes and the mulatto. The first has only one possibility and one concern: to turn white. The second wants not only to turn white but also to avoid slipping back. What indeed could be more illogical then a mulatto woman’s acceptance of a Negro husbands? For the understood once and for all that it is a question of saving the race.

Fanon argues that a people of colour may have deep desire for white rule. Those who opposite to it they don’t have secure sense of self that they have very chip sense on their shoulder. 

If the black is not a man, then what is the biological, psychological and cultural identity of the black? If the black is not a man, what and who is black? Fanon’s answer to this is equally enigmatic: ‘The black is a black man.’ Moreover, his answer to what a black man wants is more enigmatic: ‘The black man want to be white’.

Even we can also prove the post colonialism through these points

·        The idea of Blackness

·        The idea of identity

·        Notion of desire

·        The idea of Negritude

·        The idea of darkness 

·        O-Other

·        Black Mulatto White.