Moi, Tituba, sorcière… Noire de Salem de Maryse Condé Premier récit ­d’esclave en fiction francophone

Published in 1986 by Maryse Condé, this novel opened up new routes for exploration which continue to nourish Caribbean Francophone narratives today. The first fictionalisation of the “je” of a slave in the context of a fictional autobiography, the novel proposes imagination as the discourse which can compensate for the lack of archives and for the invisibility of the lived experience of slaves.