The book is perhaps best known today through Frantz Fanon's famous critique in Black Skin, White Masks, where Capécia became a controversial figure in debates around colonial psychology and assimilation.

However, it is one of the earliest Caribbean novels to reach an English-language readership, despite Mayotte Capécia's work occupying a complicated but important place in twentieth-century literature. 

Set in colonial Martinique, these two novels trace the emotional and social lives of Black women negotiating race, gender, colourism and the lingering architecture of French colonialism. Intimate rather than overtly political, Capécia writes from within everyday experience, where desire, class and identity become inseparable.

 Read independently, however, these novels reveal a far richer and more conflicted literary voice than the caricature often left by that debate. An essential volume for readers interested in Caribbean literature, postcolonial writing and the intellectual history surrounding Fanon.

Passaggiata Press paperback edition, 1997. English translation by Beatrice Stith Clark, containing both I Am a Martinican Woman and The White Negress. Very good condition with light shelf wear and faint creasing to the wraps. Binding is firm and the interior remains clean and unmarked.