Beyond flight: Afro-feminism in the context of racial and sexual violence

Through an analysis of Cru [Raw] (2014) by Nefertari Belizaire and Amour, colere et folie [Love, anger and madness] (1968) by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, rape and incest are highlighted as the concrete signs and symptoms of an overlapping mix of exploitation, alienation and (neo)colonialism. The autobiographical Cru contains a lengthy apostrophe to Belizaire's tyrannical uncle in which she recounts the years of torments she suffered at his hands. Born in Haiti in 1962, the author and actress died on February 19, 2017 in Quebec, where she spent the greater part of her life. This, her only work, was published by a Montreal publisher in 2014. The richness and precision of her analysis in this text, in parallel with Amour, colere et folie, enables a study of the foundations of sexual violence and racialization as tools of domination.