The literary establishment rewards colonized women who demonize their own men
Evidence
His actual target is I Am a Martinican Woman (Je suis Martiniquaise)13, in which Mayotte Capecia does just what her Iranian counterpart will do decades later: she demonizes colored men and rests the salvation of colored women on the generosity of the white men who will rescue her and her sisters from bondage. And she was almost as celebrated as Nafisi, winning France’s Grand Prix Litter air e des Antilles in 1949. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 157
Related
- Colonized women historically sought whiteness as beauty and virtue (similarity 0.78)