Le roman post-sismique en Haïti : une écriture (post)contemporaine de l’extrême

Many Haitian writers since the earthquake that destroyed Port-au-Prince in January 2010 have developed in their works of fiction the theme of writing the disaster, expressing it in various forms. The aim of this paper is to analyze the strategies adopted to write about the psychological and social effects of the cataclysmic event in two post-earthquake novels, Marvin Victor’s "Corps mêlés" (2011) and Makenzy Orcel’s "Les Immortelles" (2010). In questioning the relationship between literature and the present-time, the two Haitian writers chose different styles and forms to transpose into fiction the disruptions caused by the earthquake. We will focus our attention on two narrative strategies in particular : the interior monologue chosen by Victor and the hybrid narration preferred by Orcel.