« Là-bas », la mère patrie Amour et dépit dans Le Bataillon créole de Raphaël Confiant

The enthusiastic engagement of Raphaël ­Confiant’s five Martiniquais is characteristic of the most humble –here, the Nègres-la-campagne– who vow to the mother country the filial love of those who have nothing else. More than the harshness of the climate and the ­combat, it is the ignorance and negligence of the metropolis, and then the absence of any ­concrete recognition, which breaks their hearts and destroys their sense of belonging.