The native informer’s white mask has relocated from the colony to the imperial metropole.

Evidence

In Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon psychoanalyzed the early pathology of what would grow into today’s native informer. The white masks Fanon identified, however, were donned on the colonial ground, while the masks I identify in this study have made the journey abroad. They are like Mustafa Sa’eed in Tayeb Salih’s 1966 novel Season of Migration to the North, who does not return to Sudan when Great Britain invades Sudan but rather stays in England, looking for a good job and using his knowledge of Arabic and of Africa to tell the British what they want to hear. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 113

Categorization

• XREF: Extends Fanon by relocating the masquerade from colonial ground to imperial home front—the same pathology, new geography.

Related

• Contemporary native informers wear white masks abroad rather than on colonial soil (similarity 0.89)
• Dismantling the native informer requires reclaiming American nativeness (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial geography of Fanon’s era no longer divides the world into colonizer and colonized (similarity 0.81)