Emprisonnement, déchéance et abandon : Fort-de-France vue par Alfred Alexandre = Imprisonment, Degradation and Abandoning : Fort-de-France Seen by Alfred Alexandre

This article analyses Alfred Alexandre’s novel Bord de Canal (2004), in which the capital of Martinique turnes into a setting for human decay. The description of squalid environments, populated by human debris, shows the lack of interest by the administration in taking responsibility for the lot of the most deprived inhabitants. They end up confined to working-class areas in inhuman living conditions. Through an analysis of places symbolising this degraded and degrading urban environment, which is transformed into a place of social exclusion and persecution, the study shows the renewal of the literary treatment of the city by Alexandre, an author of the post-creolité.