Sherlin Smile (2021) BLACKNESS AND BLACK SUBJECT IN FRANTZ FANON’S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS: AN ONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS. Wesleyan Journal of Research An International Research Journal of Humanities,Social & Applied Sciences, 14 (4). ISSN 0975-1386

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Abstract

This article uses one of the early works of Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks to examine the
effects of colonial power through the lived experience of the author in Martinique, in the post-World War II
France, as a medicalpractitioner .The core argument in this article is about the colonial power which has a
psychological and cultural effect upon the colonial subjects. Firstly, Fanon sketches the relationship between
ontology and sociological structure and asserts that the latter generates the former, which, in turn, lock
subjectivities into their racial categories. Secondly, on the power language possesses in transforming the life of
blacks as independent subjects. Lastly, on the lived on experience of the blacks and the mechanisms of colonial
power over the colonial subjects by inducing desperate feelings of inadequacy in order to reject their ‘black’
identity and assume and project a ‘white’ one.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: subjectivity, black identity, racism, whiteness, ontology.
Divisions: PSG College of Arts and Science > Department of English
Depositing User: Mr Team Mosys
Date Deposited: 18 Jul 2023 05:21
Last Modified: 18 Jul 2023 05:21
URI: http://ir.psgcas.ac.in/id/eprint/1990

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