| Summary: | Through the analysis of various characters in Simone and André Schwarz-Bart’s literary cycle, this article will explore how their individual destinies connect with the various communities where they belong or to which they are assigned – from African traditional communities destroyed by slavery, to communities bound together by their struggle, and the bare life experienced by those who are deprived from any human bond. In particular, what are the individual or collective strategies implemented by the characters in the face of the various dominations they are subjected to ?
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