This article proposes a study of the representation of women in three of Maryse Condé's novels for young people: Rêves amers (reprint of Haïti chérie), Savannah Blues and La Belle et la Bête, a Guadeloupean version. In these fictions, Maryse Condé challenges gender stereotypes, particularly around motherhood and the figure of the potomitan or West Indian mother-courage. She also questions sexist and racist prejudices inherited from colonialism and slavery, such as the imagery of the "mulatto", the beautiful mixed-race woman of the islands.

In the early twentieth century, the National novelists of Haiti sought to recuperate the image of their nation and the black race in their works. Their representations of black women were an essential part of this agenda, as they explored such issues as black women's looks, their social status and mobility, and their relationships with men of diverse classes and races. In this sense the National novelists were among Haiti's first nationalist and feminist writers.

L’Union Fanm Ayisien Patriot (UFAP) insiste sur l’intérêt d’émanciper les femmes ainsi que d’éliminer les discriminations envers elles au sein du mouvement. Ce dernier se positionnant contre l’exploitation, il incite les femmes à s’organiser afin de lutter contre les oppressions qu’elles subissent dans la société et dans l’organisation, mais aussi contre le régime dictatorial des Duvalier et l’impérialisme américain. (Résumé par Mouka)

Fiction. Latinx Studies. African & African American Studies. THREE WOMEN OF HAITI, first published in German in 1980, is the final work by the great German writer, Anna Seghers. The three stories of the triptych concern women caught up in historical events across almost 500 years of Haitian history, beginning with the time of Christopher Columbus's exploratory voyages to the New World and ending in the 1970s with the repressive measures of the B b Doc Duvalier regime.

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Haitian women have used protests and activism to negotiate their compromised positions in the national citizenry. Their protests reflect the nuanced and multiple social locations of women in Haiti and have varied from infanticide and marron‐age in the eighteenth century, to guerrilla warfare, public demonstrations, and political organization in the nineteenth century, to a “literature of revolution,” and the development of individual, national, and transnational feminist discourses by the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries.