English 148: Afro-Caribbean Literature Professor MukherjeeFall 2020 Essay 4Length: A Minimum of 3 Pgs.Texts: Frantz Fanon’s Chapters, “Negro and Language” and “Fact of Blackness” from the book, Black Skin, White Mask sDue: Friday, October 23OverviewEssay4is a response to the idea of the “alienation” of the Black Man (meaning all colonized people) and his “dis-alienation” as outlined in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks.In the two assigned chapters, “Negro and Language”and “The Fact of Blackness,”Fanonargues that the “Black” is a creation of white knowledge. Based on the non-white color of hisskin, the colonized has been racialized into the white person’s inferior other. Furthermore,western education conditions the colonized to believe in these Western concept of “Black”as true and without alternatives. The consequences are internalizing inferiority complex and hatred of the black skin. According to Fan on the oppressed have to reject the black identity that is a white construct and create their own. In other words, to attain true liberation from colonialism, the black man has to escape from the prison of blackness and become “human.”Essay Prompt As in essays prior,structure essay 4around a focus, which is also a thesis statement. Avoid writing paraphrases and summaries of the main text for the sake of it. You must have a point to prove.To validate your position say on whether “blackness” is an entrapment made by the white colonizer, you have to include at least 5 significant quotes from the two chapters that speak to this point.Remember that quotation interpretation is key to the essay.The essay should have:1.A thesis or a central claim2.Tightly-structured paragraphs3.Interpretations of quotations and passages from the main text4.Focus5.Correct grammar and expressions
