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Haitian Novels and Novels of Haiti: History, Haitian Writing, and Madison Smartt Bell's Trilogy
- Small Axe
- Indiana University Press
- Number 23 (Volume 11, Number 2), June 2007
- pp. 163-176
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This essay reads Madison Smartt Bell's Haitian trilogy in the context of contemporary Haitian literature, and considers why Haitian writers have tended not to evoke the revolution in their work, and why it is an American author has produced the most ambitious work of Haitian historical fiction of recent times.