Haitian Literature: Identity, Language, Reality by Maximilien Laroche

For methodological reasons, we will agree to understand by Haitian literature only the texts written in French and which are analyzed in the manuals and anthologies published between 1930 and 1960 by Duracine Vaval, Louis Morpeau, Pradel Pompilus, Maurice Lubin, Ghislain Gouraige and Baridon-Philoctete...

The construction of a national literature therefore requires a community like Haiti to transform a spoken language into a written language and at the same time to substitute its national language of communication for a foreign language known as a language of civilization.