Colonized subjects recognize the colonizer’s landscape as already-familiar and idealized

Evidence

This is what is known as bovarisme. In Martinique also we were in the midst of bovarisme. I still remember a poor little Martinican pharmacist who passed the time writing poems and sonnets which he sent to literary contests, such as the Floral Games of Toulouse. He felt very proud when one of his poems won a prize. One day he told me that the judges hadn’t even realized that his poems were written by a man of color. To put it in other words, his poetry was so impersonal that it made him proud. He was filled with pride by something I would have considered a crushing condemnation. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 330 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial education familiarizes the colonized subject with the metropole from inside; Colonized writers internalize the colonizer’s aesthetic to erase their own identity — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 330; Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (+2 more)

Related

• Colonized writers internalize the colonizer’s aesthetic to erase their own identity (similarity 0.93)
• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves (similarity 0.88)
• Orientalist categories are reproduced by the colonized themselves (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial histories are internal to the identity of the colonizer nation (similarity 0.80)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.80)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.79)
• Colonized subjects identify with the colonizer’s culture while lacking its material means (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial subjects internalized the imperial center’s landscape as already-known before ever seeing it. (similarity 0.78)
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Hall’s colonial education made colonizer culture feel intimately familiar #exemplifies (0.92)
• Colonized writers internalize the colonizer’s aesthetic to erase their own identity #expands (0.75) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 330
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry #expands (0.72)