The Nergro and the language (The Post-colonial Literature)
- 1. Name: Baraiya Bhavna P. Roll No: 3 Sem: 3 Year: 2013-14 Submitted To: Dr. Dilip Barad Dpt. Of English Bhavnagar Uni.
- 2. Language constructs subject, Language is constructed by people, Black Man’s Two dimension Whit Man Black man’s fellow The psyche of the black man : dividing society in to two categories. This division effects his thinking and creates a kind of gap between the two categories.
- 3. Hybridity: The outcome of the mixure to the culture of the colonizer that produses a person with no fixed cultural marks, and he is in between of the two cultures as he is neither accepted by one or the another. A Negro behaves differently with a white man and with another Negro. Idea of completeness: complete darkness is a larger idea of Negritude Negritue - celibration of blackness black is beauty.
- 4. “To speak is to exist absolutely for the other” -Frantz Fnon Speaking is one of the ways how the colored man imposes and expresses his existence for the other. The act of speaking is a set of several points that the black man carries to his own culture and personality. The idea of sublimation: Philosophy has never saved anyone, Our half problem occures due to lack of sublimity Black men are as intelligent as white men Intelligence has never saved anyone
- 5. Inferiority Complex: Fanon says that all nations that have been colonized have killed their own culture, customs and language. Adoption of the colonizer’s language and culture that led to the decline of their mother land and culture and creates a complex of inferiority developed inferiority complex and as a result he has buried his own culture religious reason behind inferiority complex
- 6. Language – Jungle ≠ Civilizatio The Negro becomes whiter as he renounces his blackness, his Jungle Mastery of language affords remarkable power Colonizer’s language define as a civilize language Language is a power and it gives power to those who master it well Language ≠ creole Language = Colonizer’s language Language that makes the idea of inferiority clearer
- 7. Idea of inferiority shows the importance and power given to the language by society Idea of inferiority shows how language civilizes Negro and makes him White Some families completely forbid the use of Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it In school the children of Martinique are taught to scorn dialect The middle class in the Antilles never speak Creole, except to their servants
- 8. Fanon’s comparison of French imperialism in Africa with the period when the England ruled over England Why Bretons were not civilized and did not have inferiority complex like Africa did Fanon’s rejection of Darwinism “IT has been said that the Negro is the link between monkey and man – meaning of course white man” -Frantz Fanon Language creates opportunity: “Historically, it must be understood that the Negro wants to speak French because it is the key that can open doors which were still barred to him fifty years ago”