Marie-Célie Agnant

• Autores: Susan Irel, Patrice J. Proulx
• Localización: The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature / Andrea A. Davis (ed. lit.), Leslie Sanders (ed. lit.), 2025, ISBN 9780367742003, págs. 345-353
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter explores the multifaceted works of Marie-Célie Agnant, a major figure in contemporary Quebec literature and one of the most well-known female writers from Haiti currently residing in the province. Agnant’s coming-to-writing is inextricably linked to the difficult circumstances surrounding her departure from Haiti during the Duvalier regime, and she has indicated that, for her, writing comprises an essential part of the process of recovering her past and remaining connected to her homeland. Her desire to illuminate untold stories, especially as they pertain to women, is reflected in the central motif of storytelling which appears in the majority of her texts and which often evokes a narrative chain linking multiple generations of women. In this fashion, Agnant uses storytelling as a means of transmitting individual and collective memories and of testifying to the resilience of Haitian women in the context of traumatic events such as political violence, exile, and enslavement.