Returning metropole-skilled colonials are treated as demigods in their homelands

Evidence

Central to Fanon’s view of the colonized mind is the significance of language in the alienation of the black person, an ugly colonial process Fanon aimed at reversing via disalienation. His primary frame of reference was autobiographical; he dwelled especially on the moment when the Martinican, having gone to France and perfected his French, returns to his homeland: “The black man who has been to the metropole is a demigod.” — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 143

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Anglophone-returning-student trope in The Namesake and broader postcolonial return narratives.