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Identity Crisis in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks

Antony, Sam LU (2013) In The Criterion: An International Journal in English 4(IV).
Abstract
During the years of their colonial subjugation, the colonial subjects had gotten into themselves the seed of “inferiority complex”, which in turn made them feel that white skins are superior. This psychological trauma was so intense that they tend to run away from their own individuality by imbibing the traits of their own masters, inorder to be equal or to be accepted by the white community. This thirst for acceptance of the self as a human being made them loose their own ‘Self’. They tried to attain it by speaking the white language, by questioning and alienating themselves from their own culture. This quest for acceptance an the problem of Identity crisis is theoritized by Frantz Fanon in Black Skin White Masks. This is also evident in... (More)
During the years of their colonial subjugation, the colonial subjects had gotten into themselves the seed of “inferiority complex”, which in turn made them feel that white skins are superior. This psychological trauma was so intense that they tend to run away from their own individuality by imbibing the traits of their own masters, inorder to be equal or to be accepted by the white community. This thirst for acceptance of the self as a human being made them loose their own ‘Self’. They tried to attain it by speaking the white language, by questioning and alienating themselves from their own culture. This quest for acceptance an the problem of Identity crisis is theoritized by Frantz Fanon in Black Skin White Masks. This is also evident in the masterpieces of many authors who were once under then colonial wreckage. This paper deals with the psychological aspects that has affected the once colonial subjects by analyzing No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe, which shows this identity crisis of the protagonist and his people by making use of Frantz Fanon’s notions on Black Skin White Masks. (Less)
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IV
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  abstract     = {{During the years of their colonial subjugation, the colonial subjects had gotten into themselves the seed of “inferiority complex”, which in turn made them feel that white skins are superior. This psychological trauma was so intense that they tend to run away from their own individuality by imbibing the traits of their own masters, inorder to be equal or to be accepted by the white community. This thirst for acceptance of the self as a human being made them loose their own ‘Self’. They tried to attain it by speaking the white language, by questioning and alienating themselves from their own culture. This quest for acceptance an the problem of Identity crisis is theoritized by Frantz Fanon in Black Skin White Masks. This is also evident in the masterpieces of many authors who were once under then colonial wreckage. This paper deals with the psychological aspects that has affected the once colonial subjects by analyzing No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe, which shows this identity crisis of the protagonist and his people by making use of Frantz Fanon’s notions on Black Skin White Masks.}},
  author       = {{Antony, Sam}},
  issn         = {{0976-8165}},
  keywords     = {{Identity Crisis; Self; Individuality; Colonial Subjugation}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{IV}},
  series       = {{The Criterion: An International Journal in English}},
  title        = {{Identity Crisis in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks}},
  url          = {{https://www.the-criterion.com/V4/n4/Sam.pdf}},
  volume       = {{4}},
  year         = {{2013}},
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