1. Danticat, Edwidge. “Krik? Krak! ‘Children of the Sea’ Summary and Analysis.” GradeSaver, https://www.gradesaver.com/krik-krak/study-guide/summary-children-of-the-sea.

Krik? Krak! written in 1995 by Edwidge Danticat is a short story book that contains nine stories and an epilogue that take place between the 1960s and the early 1990s. Krik Krak also focuses on Haitian women trying to understand their relationships to their families and to Haiti. The stories take place in Port-au-Prince or Ville Rose, Haiti or New York, they do not overlap excepting one story “Between the Pool and the Gardenias’ which mention women from earlier on. In this literary work, only one story will be focused on; that is Children of the Sea, as this story, bears similarity to two previous novels also set in the time of the The Duvalier Dynasty

2. Johnson, Roy. “The Kingdom of This World - Tutorial and Study Guide.” Mantex, 21 July 2018, https://mantex.co.uk/the-kingdom-of-this-world/.

The Kingdom of this World written by Alejo Carpentier in 1949 is a historical novel that documents the first successful slave revolution in the Americas. The setting of the novel was that of Hispaniola between 1791 and 1804, which is now modernly Haiti and Dominican Republic. The Kingdom of this World is told largely from a point of view of a poor, uneducated slave named Ti Noël. This novel is greatly considered as Alejo Carpentier’s first great novel as it displays amazingly vivid tableaux that captures both the complexities of the European colonialism in the New World and the confusion of political upheavals. This novel provides the historical event of the first successful slave revolution; the 1791 Haitian Revolution, which will allow me to provide brief textual analysis of the novel, the historical event and the themes which the novel encompasses.

3. LitCharts. “Breath, Eyes, Memory Study Guide.” LitCharts, https://www.litcharts.com/lit/breath-eyes-memory.

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat follows the main character of 12 year old Sophie Caco who is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. From there she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. Breath, Eyes, Memory is necessary for my project as it contains the historical event - The Duvalier dynasty and the upheaval of this dictatorial dynasty. Breath, Eyes, Memory documents contains trauma, political upheaval, Haitian folklore, spirituality, turmoil, bloodshed and the life-warping experience of moving from the Caribbean to the USA. Themes in Breath, Eyes, Memory will also be explored.

4. “The Haitian Trilogy: Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and The Haytian Earth, by Derek Walcott.” The Hawaii Project, https://www.thehawaiiproject.com/book/The-Haitian-Trilogy-Plays-Henri-Christophe,-Drums-and-Colours,-and-The-Haytian-Earth--by--Derek-Walcott--345413#!

The Haitian Trilogy (Henri Christophe; Drums and Colours; The Haitian Earth): written in 2002 by Derek Walcott is a drama type book that contains three history plays. The three historical plays are Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours and The Haytian Earth. The author; according to the publisher “uses verse to tell the story of his native West Indies as a four-hundred-year cycle of war, conquest and rebellion.” In the plays of Henri Christophe and The Haytian Earth, the author re-casts the legacy of Haiti’s violent revolutionaries which were led by leaders like Toussaint L’Ouverture, Jean Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe, whose rebellions established the first black state in the Americas but whose cruelty becomes a parable of racial pride and corruption. Only the story of Henri Christophe will be focused on, exploring the life of the self appointed northen king of Haiti and the themes of which the story contains.

5. “Thoughts on Marie Vieux-Chauvet's Love, Anger, Madness.” Dream Variations - Variations on a Theme, 1 Jan. 1970, http://thedreamvariation.blogspot.com/2011/09/thoughts-on-marie-vieux-chauvets-love.html.

Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy written in 1968 by Marie Vieux-Chauvet is a collection of three novellas set in the 1950s to 1960s and uses love, anger and madness as the main themes of each story. Love, Anger, Madness depicts families and artists struggling to survive and find love and safety in Haiti while living under terrifying and hostile conditions. It also features multiracial Haitians, descending in class from the elite to the poor intellectual. The terifying and hostile conditions that this work of fiction depicts is the Duvalier Dynasty. Amongst briefly exploring the historical background, themes will also be analyzed and displayed.