Writing the cultural cross-currents: the Haitian immigrants’ novel in Quebec

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to recognize the manifestations of the culturalhybridization (métissage) among Haitian novelists who immigrated to Quebec. After some sociological characteristics of the migrant writing, the mainaesthetics features will be observed on diachronic level: during the 1970s,when the place of the country of origin dominate the representation, duringthe 1980s when the feeling of split identity increase the effects of hybridity,and since the middle of 1980s when the Haitian writers assume their exileby entering into an intercultural, dialogic relationship with their abandonedcountry.