Access Today I Am A Martinican Woman & The White Negress Scripted By Mayotte Capécia In Text

of this gave birth to a magic spectacle, like the mixture of races that had created this new race to which she belonged, because, all things considered, it was stupid to identify only two races: black and white.
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Most people read this because Franz Fanon tore her apart in his famous Black Skin, White Masks, but it has its own merits outside of that.
I found this an interesting account of a mixed woman in Martinique in the twentieth century, and though it was haphazard and lacked form, Capecia's perspective on the evolving ruling classes of the island seems important.
She didn't have a perfect ideology, but she was a victim of her times, Mayotte Capécia's Je suis martiniquaise is an immensely valuable work, This autobiographical novella was severely critiqued by Frantz Fanon for its portrayal of racial alienation and selfhatred, But this should not consign it to the dustbin of history, Capécia's prose is simple and moving, and she structures her narrative very delicately, Moving from childhood to early adulthood, Capécia presents us with the comingofage of an ambiguous Caribbean female self that is torn both racially and politically.
Capécia's honesty is what makes this text essential: I doubt you'll find such a candid disclosure of the complexities of being a Martinican woman in the period before and during WWII.
It stands alongside other great Caribbean autobiographies like Joseph Zobel's La Rue CasesNègres and Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was a Puerto Rican.
Anyone reading Fanon's Black Skins, White Masks should read thisnovella which he vigorously attacks, It is not what he contends, It is an odd memoir reflecting Capecia's conflicted psychology with regard to race, color and class but also an interesting record of massive historical shifts taking place in Martinique/Guadeloupe during the earlier decades of the twentieth century.
Read in the original French Complicated! Excited to do some more research on the translator too Martinique I Am a Martinican Woman French: Je suis Martiniquaise is a semi autobiographical novel

written by Lucette Ceranus, under the pseudonym Mayotte Capécia.
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