In her illustrated book Ayiti. Chants de liberté! (2022), Haitian Canadian artist, storyteller and author Joujou Turenne tells the history of her birth country, Haiti, from a feminist and diasporic perspective. To construct a feminine Haitian collective memory, she interweaves elements of her biography with Haitian history and the art of Haitian oral storytelling, integrating traditional songs and tales that belong to the Haitian oral literature.

The present paper explores the representation of the romantic and/or sexual relationships maintained by some female characters and their social roles that do not conform to the heteronormative universe in a selected corpus of contemporary Haitian literary works.