De la « terre désolée » à la « terre impossible » : (d)écrire la Terre dans la littérature haïtienne

Abstract

This study explores the relation between the poetics of the Earth and representations of Haiti in a selection of literary texts published between 1817 and 2017. Thus, it aims at questioning the slow transition following the Haitian revolution from an isolated nation-soil to a cosmopolitan land connecting with the world. An effort held back by years of dictatorship and more recently by a series of ecological disasters, events poets are still reckoning with by attempting at creating one more time the link between a population and its land.