Trauma of haiti's debt
Cilas Kemedjio
Cilas Kemedjio is associate professor of French studies and French at the University of Rochester (United States).
Through the conceptualization of the impossibility of speaking, listening, and silence rest of the trauma, this article will analyze how the relationship between Haiti and France, haunted by the imposed repair the trauma of 1825, block the emergence of any shared memory that can function as a place of reconciliation between these two countries. To what extent, autism, the French is symptomatic of what Glissant calls "the memory of slavery," while the need to talk about that characterizes the Haitian can be the sign of a " memory of the slaves ". This analysis will keep in mind the difficulty of the Haitian people, the victims or the butchers, to tell the memory of recent trauma and, more specifically, the devastation caused by Duvalier.
