This article contributes to debates concerning slavery and slave museums, taking as inspiration historical novels and archives from the Schwarz-Bart Library in Goyave (Guadeloupe). I question, in particular, the passing over of black or mulatto female heroines, in sharp contrast with béké figures who, even if they have been temporarily(!) beheaded, remain the more famous icons in the collective mind of the French Caribbean and Caribbean population at large. I could indeed measure that Martinicans, in particular, are proud to have ‘given Napoléon’s wife’ and to have erected her beautiful body into white marble ‘posture’ at the Fort-de-France Savanah. My survey touches on the counter-example of ‘La mulâtresse Solitude’, a statue erected in Guadeloupe, but without any indication of its source: the best-selling novel La mulâtresse Solitude by André Schwarz-Bart. Why does Édouard Glissant’s project for a ‘Centre national pour la mémoire des esclavages et de leurs abolitions’ on no occasion mention Solitude as the only female heroine such a Centre national could and should have staged? What does this tell us about the gender bias that continues to wreak havoc to the West Indies in all fields? Solitude remains a central, pivotal poteau mitan in Caribbean iconography. In spite of recent successful innovations, there is still much to sort out before leaving the dominant tendency to ‘statufier sur son sort’ and to promote male heroes instead of female ones.

本文以 Goyave（瓜德罗普岛）的 Schwarz-Bart 图书馆的历史小说和档案为灵感，为有关奴隶制和奴隶博物馆的辩论做出贡献。我特别质疑黑人或混血儿女英雄的逝去，与贝凯人物形成鲜明对比，即使他们被暂时（！）斩首，仍然是法属加勒比海和加勒比地区集体心目中更为著名的偶像广大人口。我确实可以看出，特别是马提尼克人，为能够“送给拿破仑的妻子”并在法兰西堡萨瓦纳将她美丽的身体竖立成白色大理石“姿势”而感到自豪。我的调查涉及“ La mulâtresse Solitude ”的反例'，一座竖立在瓜德罗普岛的雕像，但没有任何说明其来源：安德烈·施瓦茨-巴特 (André Schwarz-Bart ) 的畅销小说《女人的孤独》 。为什么 Édouard Glissant 的“国家中心 pour la mémoire des esclavages et de leurs abolitions ”项目在任何情况下都没有提到孤独是唯一一个这样的国家中心能够而且应该上演的女主角？关于继续在所有领域对西印度群岛造成严重破坏的性别偏见，这告诉我们什么？孤独仍然是加勒比肖像画中的中心、关键的poteau mitan。尽管最近有成功的创新，但在离开“ statufier sur son sort ”的主导趋势之前，还有很多需要解决的问题'并提倡男性英雄而不是女性英雄。