#Frantz_Fanon ’s Contribution to Postcolonial Criticism | Literary Theory and Criticism
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A pioneering postcolonial theorist and activist, who wrote in the 1960s in the context of the French occupation of Algeria, Frantz Fanon through his seminal works, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) and Black Skin, White Masks (1967), analysed the psychological effects of colonialism on both the coloniser and the colonised. Fanon argued that the native develops a sense of ‘self’ as defined by the ‘colonial master’ through representation and discourse, while the coloniser develops a sense of superiority. Fanon thus develops a psychoanalytical theory of postcolonialism where he suggests that the European “Self” develops in its relation and encounter with the “Other.”