Each Martinican exists as an isolated atom hungry for recognition

Evidence

While he was in France, studying for his degree in literature, Césaire “discovered his cowardice.” He knew that it was cowardice, but he could never say why. He felt that it was ridiculous, idiotic, I might say even unhealthy, but in none of his writings can one trace the mechanism of that cowardice. That is because what was necessary was to shatter the current situation and to try to apprehend reality with the soul of a child. The Negro in the streetcar was funny and ugly. Certainly Césaire laughed at him. That was because there was nothing in common between himself and this authentic Negro. A handsome Negro is introduced to a group of white Frenchmen. If it is a group of intellectuals, we can be sure that the Negro will try to assert himself. He will insist that attention be paid not to the color of his skin but to the force of his intellect. There are many people in Martinique who at the age of twenty or thirty begin to steep themselves in Montesquieu or Claudel for the sole purpose of being able to quote them. That is because, through their knowledge of these writers, they expect their color to be forgotten. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 673 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Martinican is broken by an environment he did not shape; Educated Martinican men studied European writers to make their color forgotten — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 673

Related

• Educated Martinican men studied European writers to make their color forgotten (similarity 0.92)
• No Antillean could think of himself as a Negro until Aimé Césaire appeared (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Educated Martinican men studied European writers to make their color forgotten #exemplifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 673