Tragic Narratives. The Novels of Haitian Tradition
Résumé
"For Haitian critics, the “true Haitian novel” is born in 1901 with the publication by Ollendorff in Paris of Frédéric Marcelin’s Thémistocle-Epaminondas Labasterre, subtitled “petit récit hatien” (short Haitian narrative). Marcelin’s novel breaks with the “exoticism” of Haitian novelists of the 19th century (Bergeaud, Delorme, Janvier) to impose a text which wants to be “national,” in other words a “realistic portrayal of mores, customs, family traditions and political habits common to the Haitian milieu” written in a French “which includes [. . .] a wealth of words, expressions and proverbs from [Haitian] soil” (Berrou and Pompilus 515–16).1 However, in the wake of Marcelin’s realist and nationalist aesthetics, the hundred or so novels published between 1901 and 1961,2 —which I call [...]"
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