Historicité et esthétisation de l’histoire post-duvaliériste dans Le Briseur de rosée d’Edwige Danticat
Historicity and Aestheticization of the Post-Duvalier History in Edwige Danticat’s Dew Breaker

Summary/Abstract: Based on Henri Mitterrand’s socio-critical approach, this study examines the dynamics of Haitian history as presented in Edwige Danticat’s Dew Breaker. It aims to identify a dynamic of the historical significance in the Haitian political context where the Duvaliers’ dictatorship has made waves. So how does the history of the Duvalier family, father and son, draw inspiration from the great history of the world in which the characters of the story are embedded in order to outline a new world? The answer to this question is negotiated in three parts. First, we are interested in the forms of History as they are expressed in the text. Then, the narrative is considered in terms of its enunciation with a view to the production of literary discourse. Finally, we decipher the vision of the world that emerges from Edwige Danticat’s account in the sense of the postulation of a new man, freed from the hydra of multiform enslavement.

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