Esclavage, mythe fondateur et littérature en Haïti dans Rosalie ­l’Infâme ­d’Évelyne Trouillot

Rosalie l’infâme is the first novel in Haitian literature to treat the history of slavery in Haiti beyond the heroic representation of the victorious fight for independence from Napoleon – the national myth of this first black republic. The novel acquires a symbolic dimension, interrogates representations, and renews the way slavery is recorded in history, returning to the foundations of the Haitian imaginary by entering into the everyday life of slaves.