Black Skin-Skin What Mask

The struggle of imperial culture clashing with internal norms of society awakens Dambudzo Marecheza’s cultivating story of the narrator and his friend in the piece, Black Skin What Mask with their internal struggle of being an outcast. Raising the issue of what is condemned to be a moral or an immoral act when circumstances involve the internal asylum of racism, exclusion, and self-hatred as it consumes the characters. Throughout this imagery of words, Marecheza incorporates a style of writing and a way of expression that suspense’s the purpose in this entire story of difficult situations. The situation of being black in a white world, being unlike the others, and no matter how hard they try, it would never fit the standard. Marecheza expresses the difficultly in the narrator and friends, the language that they use, and the structure of anaphora that the narrator repeatedly mentions …show more content…
The danger that was expressed in this literature with going to a place different from where there from and what their norms are in friction with their surroundings at that the story has placed them in. What draws attention to this matter is expressed through the characters and the insanity that they carry upon themselves. Their actions are oblivious to what they have become, the narrator deals with hardship by drinking and doing drugs, as he states to his friend talking about his problem “Yes, I said searching through my pockets. Booze and paper and ink. The implements of my trade (Kamraj 282).” The trade of his reality, life, and purpose due to the challenges that face him. Marecheza’s expresses the character in this way to present the issue the reality of society and ways in which victims like the narrator have come to handle