The Centrality Of Representation And The Illusion Of Images: A Postcolonial Critical Approach To “Black Skin, White Masks” By Frantz Fanon

Abstract

This research aims to invest the categories of cultural criticism and post -colonial criticism to approach the heavy representations of conflicts and tensions between cultural identities based on a critical speech of an aesthetic anti -colonial nature. In this research, we seek to approach cultural issues that intersect with the post -colonial discourse in the book "Black Skin White Masks" by the writer and psychiatrist 'Franz Fanon'. We will use Edward Said's analyzes, a cultural criticism of the concept of Orientalism, based on a basic pillar from which it was launched to read the East relationship with the West from the perspective of knowledge and strength relations when a culture resorted to representing another culture and carries it as descriptions that may not be believed, so you make pictures and representations that define its dimensions from the perspective of culture Strong, but rather power and military and cultural dominance.