Le poids des préjugés dans trois romans Kettly Mars
This master’s thesis studies how the prejudices of the haitien social space affect the text layout in three Kettly Mars’s novels: Kasalé, L’heure hybride and Saisons sauvages.  These prejudices defend by the bourgeoisie represent an elite culture which values French language and a western inheritance and despises the popular culture, impregnated with an African inheritance and characterized by the practice of vodoo and the Creole language. “The colour prejudice”, described by certain authors as the base of the system of social organization, also takes an important place within the social discourse.   The three studied novels take place during the political regime of Duvalier: François Duvalier governs in Kasalé and Saisons sauvages and Jean-Claude Duvalier governs L’heure hybride. The presence of dictatorship affects the treatment of the prejudices in Kettly Mars’s novels especially because François Duvalier exploited the Haitian bourgeoisie’s prejudices in his political rhetoric by claiming to be a defender of Haitian popular culture. Nevertheless, Kettly Mars’s novels illustrate the way the dictatorship reproduces these prejudices. With the sociocritic’s notions of “discours social” and “imaginaire social”, this study will question the text layout of the prejudices on the skin color, the popular culture (which includes voodoo and Creole) and the sexuality and the sexual roles through stereotypes, social representations and languages in novels.
Kettly Mars Haitian novel prejudices sociocritic