The Ruins of the Kingdom

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X70317

Keywords:

Historical novel, Post-coloniality, Haiti

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the novel The Kingdom of This World, by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, under a post-colonial theoretical approach. It is a novel which uses as a narrative material the facts of Haitian history, conveyed by Ti Noel, a slave who lives in a time of conflicts linked to the process of independence, as well as the Napoleonic wars, of the colonial process as it happened in Haiti, so unlike the French principles of fraternity, liberty and equality. He ends up living in the ruins of the house of his former owner, old and senile. Thus, it is by the eyes of Ti Noel that the novel exposes all the violence and contradictions involved in Haitian colonial process.

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Author Biography

Cíntia Carla Moreira Schwantes, University of Brasília

Adjunct Professor at the University of Brasilia

References

CARPENTIER, A. O reino deste mundo. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2009.

FONSECA, M. N. S. Henri Christophe: mito e história. Cadernos de Linguística e Teoria da Literatura, Belo Horizonte, n. 14, p. 179-192, 1985. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/cltl/article/view/8022.

HALL, S. Da diáspora: identidades e mediações culturais. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2003.

PIARD, J. An Autopsy of the Black Revolution: Looking at Henri Christophe through the Césairean lens. Pathways, Philadelphia, v. 1, n. 2, 2020.

Published

2023-09-15

How to Cite

Schwantes, C. C. M. (2023). The Ruins of the Kingdom. Literatura E Autoritarismo, (41). https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X70317