Psychological study of Mulatto in "Black skin, White Mask"

1. Presentation By : Munjpara. Maitri. R Roll No . : 17 Semester : 3 rd Year : 2013-15 Paper Name : The Post- Colonial Literature Topic : Psychological Study of Mulatto in Black skin, White Mask Submitted To : Department of English. M. K. B. U.

2. Introduction of Frantz Fanon : He was a Afro-French Psychiatrist, Philosopher, Revolutionary and writer. His was a child of a Mulatto. He wrote his first book “Black Skin, White Masks” in France during 1952. The manuscript was the doctoral dissertation, submitted at Lyon, entitled "Essay on the Disalienation of the Black"; the rejection of the dissertation prompted Fanon to publish it as a book .

3. What is Psychological? Of, affecting, or arising in the mind; related to the mental and emotional state of a person. Ex: Women’s suffering is psychological and physical now a days. What is Mulatto? A Mulatto is a person who has both Negro and European ancestry. The term “mulatto” is probably derived from the Portuguese and Spanish word   mulato , which itself is derived from  mula , or mule (from Old Spanish; from Latin mūlus ). The politically-correct term for a person of mixed race today is “ biracial ”. Mulatto technically referred to someone half-black and half-white .

4. Psychology of Mulatto :

5. Examples By Fanon: When he was in military service, he got opportunity to observe the behaviour of white women. Their faces were filled with fear. While reading children’s newspaper, He read a caption to a picture in which a young black boy was showing a Negro village to three or four white scouts.

6. Thank You….. Source: Original Text of Black skin, white mask http ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Skin,_White_Masks