Jacques Roumain Analysis

Jocques Roumain is an excellent writer that shows audience the essence of the Haitians activism through his beautiful novel "The preface to the life of a bureaucrat." The atavism which was a typical element that characterized the governmental authorities for decades. This novel was published in 1930 and in this period a lot of relevant events happened in Haiti. Eustache Antoine Francois Joseph Louis Borno was a lawyer who later became president of Haiti during the period of American occupation in Haiti. ( 1922- to-1930). Literature for Haitian writers was like a tool of freedom to express the indignation about the American bourgeois intervention. Haitians were treated as slaves during this period because America wanted to take advantage …show more content…
Ironically, the U.S. Marines who had been in Haiti since 1915 left Haitian on August 15, 1934 but the native police guard d’Haiti, replaced it because the Haitian guards were trained by the Marines.So, they have adopted the ideologies and philosophies of American beurgois marines. Jocques Roumain through his novel "Preface to the life of a bureaucrat"wanted to strike against the wrong beaugois mentalities that destroy the freedom and dignity of a beautiful and strong country. For instance, in 1937, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who was president of the Dominican Republic ordered the assassination of Haitians in the Dominican Republic. The article Haiti History 101, by the Decades, The 1930s, states that "Trujillo's intention was to clean his country of all traces of