Psychological study of Mulatto in ‘Black skin, White Mask’.

Name: Deepika VajaPaper :The post colonial literature Topic: Psychological study of Mulatto in ‘Black skin, White Mask’. Enrollment no: PG14101031.Year & class: 2014-16 & M.A -2Roll no:04deepikavaja3733@gmail.com Dept. of English M. K. Bhavnagar University.

Index

• About Frantz Fanon.• What is psychological?• What is Mulatto?• Psychology of Mulatto child.• Black man and white man psychology.• Example…• Conclusion

About Frantz Fanon

•Frantz Fanon was born in 1925 •Died in 1961.•He was a French Psychiatrist and Revolutionary thinker. He was a child of a Mulatto.• He wrote his first book “Black Skin, White Masks” in France during 1952.•Fanon believed that violent revolution was the only means of ending colonial repression and cultural trauma in the Third World country. He was anti colonial.

What is psychological?• It means that observation of human behaviors and arising in

the mind. It is related to the mental and emotional state of a person.

• It is study about mental disorder of human mind and it is a multifaceted discipline and includes many sub fields of study such as human mind.

“I am not a prisoner of history. I should not seek there for the meaning of my destiny. I should constantly remind myself that the real leap consists in introduction invention into existence. In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself”. (Black skin, White Mask)

What is Mulatto?• The term “mulatto” is probably

derived from the Portuguese and Spanish word Mulato, which it is derived from mula or mule.

• Mulatto technically referred to someone half-black and half-white . It is black woman married to white man and their child has to Mulatto.

Psychology of Mulatto child

Mulatto

White man married to black

women

Reverse of blackness

Black women’s

fear

biological

Black skin women

Negro person

Phobogentic

Black women phobia of

Negro

Normal child family

Normal society

Mulatto child

Abnormal society

Inferiority begins from childhood

Black man and white man psychology.

White man Master

Pure & Good lookingSuperior person

White men’s attitude

Black & negro manSlave

Evil and bad personInferior

equality is conscious

Example…• Franz Fanon was a child of a Mulatto. he was in military

service, he got opportunity to observe the behaviour of white women.

• He belongs negro family. itself is grounded in self-consciousness.

• when it encounters resistance from the other, self-consciousness undergoes the experience of desire the first milestone on the road that leads to dignity.

• It may be Fanon has to struggle a lot and how white man superiors in society.

• White man think that black man was evil and bad.

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

• “I am a Frenchman. I’m in interested in French culture, civilization”

• Negro was universalizing himself.• Fanon and so many mulatto child face to this

problems. their mind in one kind of fear that society or people want way to blackness.

Conclusion• So we conclude that black women and negro person

have one kind of fear or phobia in their mind.• Fanon argues about his own fact of Blackness. He

endured such the psychologically alimentary effects of colonialism and racism.

E.g. Jew and Antillean • It is goes back to blackness and Mulatto children

has unconscious disorder and evil of blackness. May be negro man fear of black women married to white man.

Source:

• Fanon, Frantz. Black skin, White mask. 1952.• Wikipedia. 4 oct 2015 <http://www.What is

psychology?.com>.

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