Abstract
Lee-Keller talks about Marie Chauvet's trilogy Amour, colere et folie [Love, Anger, and Madness] which presents a searing critique' of despotism, racialized social hierarchies, and women's subordination in Haiti. Lee-Keller first briefly sketch out the turbulent history of Haiti, specifically focusing on the periods in which the novel is set and was written. She then argues that Chauvet's trope of madness in Amour makes visible, if not explicit, Haiti's terrifying and contradictory gendered, racialized, social, and political demands made of women of her class.