Pblack water, white masks is a work written by Frantz Fanon and published at Seuil en 1952. The book opens with a quote fromAimé Césaire (Speech on colonialism). I speak of millions of men who have been learnedly instilled with fear, inferiority complex, trembling, kneeling, despair, stooges.
It is a question of making an analysis, from a psychological point of view of what the colonialism left as a heritage to humanity, and this starting from the relationship between the Black and the White. It is a whole set of definitions which are made by differentiation, and for that the first chapter lays the bases of linguistic. Fanon goes back and forth between on the one hand the experiences he has gathered in his own existence as a student and as a doctor as well as in contemporary literary testimonies (Senghor, Césaire, Mayotte Capécia...), and on the other hand the analyzes of philosophers (Sartre, But also Michel Leiris, Georges Mounin,Marie Bonaparte, Alfred Adler). His thesis is that colonization has created a collective neurosis that must be got rid of. It describes all the stratifications to allow an awareness on the part of West Indians and, secondarily, African blacks and white French. This short work will have little impact in France but remains important in anti-colonialist literature. It is more striking for the veracity of the insane cry, especially in chapter 6 and in the conclusion, similar to the poetry of Leon Gontran Damascus, than for his linguistic and psychiatric analyzes which will be developed with more scope and method in The West Indian Speech byEdouard Glissant which is inspired by this work.
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Black skin, white masks
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Release Date | 2015-04-09T00:00:01Z |
Language | Français |
Number Of Pages | 240 |
Publication Date | 2015-04-09T00:00:01Z |