Słowa kluczowe: French melodrama, stage adaptation, cultural matrix, Krysinska, American woman, the New World, American mores, multiracial organism, intermediality, word and music studies, Flaubert, Kuncewiczowa, opera in novel, novel, poetry, creation, narration, resistance, war, machete, knife, culture, transmission, transgression, La chronique journalistique et le roman : un espace dialogique pour résister au déni, Myriam Ben, Naïm Kattan, Lucien Elia, resiliance, Maryse Condé, Caribbean identity, strenght, historiographical metafiction, Antillean literature, postcolonial literature, négritude, antillanité, creolization, edition, Robert Charbonneau, France-Quebec relationships, francophony, history, language, engagement, action, nothingness, Beckett, Mallarmé, Deleuze