ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a comparative analysis of the rewriting of the Christ narrative in Toni Morrison’s Paradise (1998) and Simone Schwarz-Bart’s Pluie et vent sur Télumée miracle (1972). We shall see that by using the Bible as a source of intertextuality, both authors appropriate the weapons originally used by the West to enslave Black bodies to develop their own strategies of resistance while also pointing out, as Allen Dwight Callahan puts it, that “The figure of Jesus has signified the suffering of Black people, and the true significance of Jesus is signified in their suffering.”
