The Few and Far Between Symbiosis of Black and White: Never Intermixed

Abstract

This article presents a comparative study of two eminent philosophers and three different works on the axis of the colonizer and the colonized.[1]The article, on the one hand, reflects the mind of the colonizer and the colonized, on the other hand it will reveal the relations of this echo in selected works to confirm that both the east and the west are nourishing their beneficiary consuming machine on their victims in the neo-liberal system.  Albert Memmi’s The Colonizer and the Colonized involves the black man's war of existence against the exploiting white man while it purports to present how colonialism encapsulates the colonized. It will also play a major role in the synthesis of the selected works that include different times and places. John Maxwell Coetzee’s Disgrace is a novel about the dilemma of an elderly white academician in a scandalous indignity, and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist is about a young Pakistani lad’s rushing towards a career in the United States during the aftermath of 9/11. What makes these two men so akin is not their skin colours but something else. It's like a piece of whole that is far from each other but actually so close. On the other hand, in his book Black Skin White Masks, Frantz Fanon investigates different dimensions of irritating existence of the worthless one: the colonized.  As a psychiatrist Fanon explains how the colonizer, after all human beings come to be so intolerable and relentless to the colonized ones and why the colonized people always come to a dead end when it comes to get rid of the sense of otherness no matter what they do to get equal rights with the colonizer. The tension between the colonizer and the colonized, which can be depicted as a social schizophrenia has been exemplified in the play of Amiri Baraka, Dutchman. In the light of the brilliant ideas presented in Black Skin White Masks, the play of Amiri Baraka Dutchman will be analysed in terms of the concepts of the colonizer, the colonized, psychology of racism and dehumanization through the fictional characters Clay, the man of colour and Lula, the white woman. Ultimately, this article will try to confirm that the intersection points of both the colonizer and the colonized are not their skin colours but their minds. If there is any freedom to be reached, this should start from liberating the minds, thus by decolonizing the minds, not by distinguishing the skin colours.

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[1] Inspired from Albert Memmi’s seminal work The Colonizer and the Colonized.

Keywords

• Segregation,Duality,Intuitivism,Identity Crisis,Neoliberalism

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