, he must be black in relation to the white man' (Fanon 1986: 110). Here, Fanon wants the reader to grasp the idea that neither the white nor the black culture can exist without the other and that both come into being at the time of colonization.
             According to Fanon, to speak the French language is implying that one is driven to embrace the collective consciousness of the French colonizers, the association of blackness with evil and inferiority. In order to avoid the association of blackness with evil, the black man puts on a white mask and thinks of himself participating in a society where cultural values are internalized into consciousness, thus creating a major conflict between the black's man consciousness and his body. 'In the white world the man of color encounters difficulties in the development of his bodily schema' (Fanon 1986: 110). In addition Fanon argues that language becomes a trait of cultural difference and power disequilibria. 'A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language' (Fanon 1986: 18).
             Jose, the main character of Rue Cases Nègres, grew up in a French colonized country as well and faced very similar conditions to those experienced
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