Black roots and white pages The imaginary voyage of Dumas in Haiti

Alexandre Dumas never set foot in Haiti. Nevertheless, one cannot help but notice that the literary reality of an author of mixed black race in a white world is articulated around the sudden apparition, whether explicit or implicit, of his black origins in his fiction. This complexity constitutes the starting point of a utopian journey on the winding road of the Dumasian imaginary: a journey in black and white.