ABSTRACT
The article presents, through the analysis of the novels Les villages de dieu (2021), Un ailleurs à soi (2018) and Le bout du monde est une fenêtre (2018) by the Haitian writer Emmelie Prophète, recognized as the great female voice of Haitian contemporary literature, and Letters to my grandmother (2021) by the Brazilian writer and philosopher Djamila Ribeiro, the relations between absences, loneliness and erasures and the desire to represent, through literature, memorial stocks that remained on the sidelines. The work of the French theorist Anne Muxel, Individu et mémoire familiale (1996), underlies our reading that tries to illuminate the importance of genealogical memory in the work of re-appropriating identity. The works of the two African-American writers seek to give a voice to those who have been subalternized, claiming their humanity and breaking the bonds of their silences and loneliness
KEYWORDS:
Memory work; Haitian Literature; Afro-Brazilian literature; Memorial transmission; Generational memory