Fictionnalising the Origin The Fourth Century by Édouard Glissant and Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau

Colonisation has produced new societies in the West Indies, whose experience of violence and of the slave trade represents a fundamental element. How can one describe the origins of such a context? This article provides some answers through a narrative, a symbolic and linguistic analysis of the two novels, aiming to show that they can be read as narrations of origins in that they refer to a new conception of the relationships among individuals and among communities.