Brief Summary Of The Trilogy 'Love' By Chauvet

Race. The first trilogy "love" reflects feelings of race. The audience can have this impression since the diverse color of skins of all characters. For instance Claire is described as a dark- skinned mulatto woman who is attracted by her sister's white French husband.This story highlights issues related to skin colors, complexities, and biases in Haitian society during Papa Doc dictatorship. Claire, the main character, is the darkest in her family of 'white' mulattoes. Claire's sisters, Annette and Felicia, are so light-skinned who could pass for white women. Claire's parents were also light-skinned like her sisters although her paternal grandmother is described as a black woman. The fact is that due to Claire's dark skin,she feels so uncomfortable and disappointed that the audience can notice she perceives herself as 'ugly and inferior to other women in her town. …show more content…
Since colonists were not that black and belong to a high strata.However, black Haitians were the slaves of French colonists. So, Chauvet wants to transmit the audience the political psyche of Duvalier regimen. This political psyche comes out as an aspect of racism due to the system of acculturation from French colonies in Haiti. Duvalier even with his very dark skin color conflicts against his own identity as Claire does by adopting French ideologies that isolate blacks from their own selves. Chauvete is very specific when she presents Caledu as a very black man. It is like she is purposely presenting the audience Duvalirer as black president belong to the bourgeoise. But, he didn't see himself as a "black slave" like black Haitians were treated during the colonization