Comparing Rue cases negres and Black skin white masks
Drawing on a range of approaches addressed in the module, and in particular the writings of Fanon, discuss issues of difference and identity as articulated in either Palcy’s Rue Cases Nègres or Pontecorvo’s Battle of Algiers.‘It was hate; I was hated, despised, detested, not by the neighbor across the street or my cousin on my mother’s side, but by an entire race. I was up against something unreasoned’. (Fanon 1986: 118). Whilst looking at issues of difference, identity, authenticity and language I will turn to Frantz Fanon’s critical work, Black skin White Masks (BSWM) and Eugene Palcy’s movie Rue Cases Nègres to try and explain the effects of racism and colonization reflected in the black subject’s consciousness. Frantz Fanon, an outstanding contributor to post-colonial studies, observes and criticizes the mistreatment of black people in Martinique and Algeria, countries ruled at that time by French colonizers. BSWM represents Fanon’s personal experience of a young black child educated to think like a white person in a white world. Following his encounters with French racism, Fanon felt the need to resist. In Black Skin White Masks, Fanon defines the colonial relationship as the psychological non-recognition of the subjec
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Approximate Word count = 1719
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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