The Haitian Flight for Freedom in Maryse Condé’s Rêves amers and Marie-Célie Agnant’s Alexis d’Haïti
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12879535 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Molly Krueger Enz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 553-561 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-9292 • E-ISSN: 1740-9306 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17409292.2018.1580470 |
| OpenAlex | W4247754026 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article analyzes how Maryse Condé and Marie-Célie Agnant portray the struggles faced by Haitian “boat people” in their novels Rêves amers and Alexis d’Haïti which feature child protagonists forced to leave their homeland in search of a better life in the United States. As children and migrants, they are often forgotten and misrepresented in official histories. I argue that by restoring the voices of the most vulnerable, Condé and Agnant rectify what Michel-Rolph Trouillot labels the “silencing of the past”1 of Haitian history
Art · Art history · Homeland · Humanities · Political science · Sociology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |