Haitian literature is born with the independence of the country in 1804, and has long remained the domain of men. My intention is to discover with the students a female literature that will take the forefront of the Haitian literary scene during the 1990s. I offer students the reading and discussion of some female novels published in the last 20 years.

Vodou is elusive, fascinating, disturbing and threatening, but it inhabits the soul of the Haitian people. It is said that Haitians are 60% Catholic, 40% Protestant and 100% Vodou. Far from Hollywood clichés, Vodou is a spiritual system and a way of life that permeates the social exchanges, medicine, agriculture, cosmology and, above all, the arts of the Haitian people.