The Haitian Flight for Freedom in Maryse Condé’s \u3cem\u3eRêves amers\u3c/em\u3e and Marie-Célie Agnant’s \u3cem\u3eAlexis d’Haïti\u3c/em\u3e

This article analyzes how Maryse Condé and Marie-Célie Agnant portray the struggles faced by Haitian “boat people” in their novels Rêves amers and Alexis d’Haïti which feature child protagonists forced to leave their homeland in search of a better life in the United States. As children and migrants, they are often forgotten and misrepresented in official histories. I argue that by restoring the voices of the most vulnerable, Condé and Agnant rectify what Michel-Rolph Trouillot labels the “silencing of the past”1 of Haitian history