Orientalist categories are reproduced by the colonized themselves

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Representation in Orientalism is theatrical confinement of the whole East.; Colonized nationalists engaged with, rather than ignored, imposed imperial racial categories; Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (+1 more)

Related

• Colonized writers internalize the colonizer’s aesthetic to erase their own identity (similarity 0.90)
• Colonized subjects recognize the colonizer’s landscape as already-familiar and idealized (similarity 0.87)
• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Colonized nationalists engaged with, rather than ignored, imposed imperial racial categories #corroborates (0.88)
• Colonized writers internalize the colonizer’s aesthetic to erase their own identity #exemplifies (0.82) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 330
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry #corroborates (0.72)