Editing Martinique (section)

==In popular culture==
* In 1887, the artist [[Paul Gauguin]] lived in Martinique.<ref>"Gauguin and Martinique," Karen Kristine Reichnitzer Pope, 1981.</ref> Gauguin painted the tropical landscape and the native women. The [[Paul Gauguin Interpretation Centre]] (former Gauguin Museum) is dedicated to his stay on the island.
* [[Aimé Césaire]]'s seminal poem ''[[Cahier d'un retour au pays natal]] (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land)'' envisions the poet's imagined journey back to his homeland Martinique to find it in a state of colossal poverty and psychological inferiority due to the French colonial presence.<ref name=Herdeck>"Aimé Césaire", in [[Donald E. Herdeck]] (ed.), ''Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical-Critical Encyclopedia'', Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1979, pp. 324–25.</ref><ref>"Commentary", ''Notebook of a Return to the Native Land'' (Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001), p. 53.</ref>
* [[Lafcadio Hearn]] in 1890 published a travel book titled ''Two Years in the French West Indies'', in which Martinique [Martinique Sketches] is its main topic; his descriptions of the island, people and history are lively observations of life before the Mont Pelée eruption in 1902 that would change the island forever. [[The Library of America]] republished his works in 2009 entitled ''Hearn: American Writings''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Two Years in the French West Indies |url=https://www.wdl.org/en/item/4396/ |via=[[World Digital Library]] |year=1890 |access-date=22 August 2017 |archive-date=22 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822221445/https://www.wdl.org/en/item/4396/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hearn |first1=Lafcadio |title=Youma: Story of a Western Indian Slave |date=1890 |publisher=Harper & Brothers |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4047-6737-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ykwLAAAAIAAJ |access-date=16 November 2020 |archive-date=18 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818031752/https://books.google.com/books?id=ykwLAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>