The Use of Haiti’s Henri Christophe in the Work of Derek Walcott, Aimé Césaire, and Alejo Carpentier, and his Visual Representation in the Melodramatic Mexican Comic Book Fuego
Henri Christophe was one of Haiti’s most important nationalist and revolutionary figures in the 19th century. His life has been portrayed in different ways by acclaimed writers from the Caribbean such as Cuban Alejo Carpentier, Nobel Prize winner St. Lucian Derek Walcott, and Martinican Aimé Césaire. These acclaimed literary figures transformed this historical figure into the aestheticized protagonist of narratives that represented their own cultural and sociological ideas about the Caribbean.