Voix de femmes queer au coeur de la littérature haïtienne contemporaine
Voices of Queer Women at the Heart of Contemporary Haitian Literature

Summary/Abstract: The present paper explores the representation of the romantic and/or sexual relationships maintained by some female characters and their social roles that do not conform to the heteronormative universe in a selected corpus of contemporary Haitian literary works. Our corpus consists of four works by Haitian women writers, published between 2013 and 2018: the novels Absences sans frontières (2013) by Évelyne Trouillot, Je suis vivant (2015) by Kettly Mars and Un ailleurs à soi (2018) by Emmelie Prophète, and a short story from the collection Écorchées vivantes (2017) edited by Martine Fidèle. Taking into account the current social context in Haiti, in particular social divisions and institutional homophobia, the aim of the article is to show the evolution that has taken place in the treatment of (female) homosexuality, from stigmatisation and stereotyped representations to more varied configurations that reflect contemporary realities.

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