* The Negro and Language *

Prepared by : Namrata VyasRoll No. 20Semester 1Paper 5: Post Colonial Literature: Black Skin, White Masks 1

* The Negro and Language *

• Importance of Language• The Negro and the

White• Negro’s behaviour

with the White people• Mastery of the

Language• Inferiority complex

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• The colonizer and the colonized• Negros were serving in the French

army• “Language can make you whiter”• “He doesn’t even know how to

speak, French.”

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* The Negro and Language *

* The Negro and Language *

• Negro improving Language• Reading aloud in house

and wanted to improve diction• Negro loses his identity –

psychoanalytical “failures”

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