Insaniyat
Volume 29, Numéro 4, Pages 29-43
2025-12-31
Poetics And Deconstruction In Frantz Fanon's Black Skin White Masks (1952)
Authors : Gada Said .
Abstract
The present analysis explores the process of « Deconstruction » in Frantz Fanon's book, Black Skin, White Masks (1952). The objective is mainly to revisit Fanon's text in order to examine the mechanisms of subversion regarding the issue of racialization and oppression. Fanon’s text remains an expression against racial identity, white supremacy, and colonial practices, which promote segregation and the racial type. By denouncing them, he deconstructs their social construct of racial differences. In doing so, he distances himself from the existentialist thesis of human nature and stable characteristics of a group. The study borrows the theoretical concepts of Critical Theory, with focus on Jacque Derrida's concept "Deconstruction" to reread Fanon’s text. The intention to reveal the ways in which the author questions the mechanisms fostering racialization and internalization of imperial oppressive ideologies. He suggests the ways of overcoming them through the reconstruction of the Black and colonized group’s perceptions, their identity, history, and culture. The analysis below brings forth the elements of deconstruction and reconstruction that make Black Skin, White Masks one of the more relevant pieces in reshaping perspectives on race and identity, which still continue into contemporary debates of oppression and liberation.
Keywords
Deconstruction ; white supremacy ; cultural practices ; racism ; reconstruction
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