The Ruins of the Kingdom

• Autor(a) principal: Schwantes, Cíntia Carla Moreira
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Literatura e Autoritarismo
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/LA/article/view/70317
• topic: Historischer Roman; Postkolonialität; Haiti; Historical novel; Post-coloniality; Haiti; Novela histórica; `Poscolonialidad; Haití; Romance histórico; Pós-colonialidade; Haiti

This article aims to discuss the novel The Kingdom of This World, by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, under a post-colonial theoretical approach. It is a novel which uses as a narrative material the facts of Haitian history, conveyed by Ti Noel, a slave who lives in a time of conflicts linked to the process of independence, as well as the Napoleonic wars, of the colonial process as it happened in Haiti, so unlike the French principles of fraternity, liberty and equality. He ends up living in the ruins of the house of his former owner, old and senile. Thus, it is by the eyes of Ti Noel that the novel exposes all the violence and contradictions involved in Haitian colonial process.