| Summary: | Placed under the seal of the interactions between imagination, dynamics of violence and memorial stakes, this paper studies the short-story "The Missing Peace" published in 1995 in the collection Krik? Krak! by the Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat. It takes the subject of the loss of several mothers: those of an Haïtian-American, of a young orphan Haitian woman but also that of the mother country crushed by the violence of its leaders. Mourning a mother by offering her a place in collective and intimate memories is paralleled with that of a phantasmagorical homeland. This research aims to understand the content of identity and memory struggles that cross the quests of the two main female characters, all the more so when they are done through the writing in exile of its author and in the unstable context of the Caribbean, and more particularly of Haïti, victims of natural disasters and of a painful human history marked by colonization, slavery, dictatorships and extreme poverty.
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