Ti Noël

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Ti Noël is the enslaved Haitian protagonist of Alejo Carpentier’s novel *The Kingdom of This World*, whose life story reflects the brutality, mysticism, and revolutionary upheavals of the Haitian Revolution.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
protagonist
appearsInContextOf Haitian Revolution NERFINISHED
associatedWithEvent Haitian Revolution NERFINISHED
associatedWithPlace Haiti NERFINISHED
Saint-Domingue NERFINISHED
associatedWithTheme Vodou NERFINISHED
colonial oppression
freedom
historical memory
identity
magic realism
mysticism
racial violence
revolution
slavery
characterIn El reino de este mundo NERFINISHED
The Kingdom of This World NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Haiti NERFINISHED
createdBy Alejo Carpentier NERFINISHED
ethnicBackground enslaved African
experiences brutality of plantation slavery
political upheaval
regime changes in colonial Saint-Domingue and Haiti
firstAppearanceInPublicationYear 1949
gender male
languageOfWork Spanish
literaryMovementContext lo real maravilloso
literaryPeriod Latin American modernism NERFINISHED
literarySignificance central figure in early Latin American magic realist narrative
nameInOriginalLanguage Ti Noël NERFINISHED
narrativeFunction mediator between the marvelous and the historical
witness to multiple historical regimes
narrativeRole protagonist of The Kingdom of This World
occupation slave
portrayedAs deeply connected to African-derived spiritual practices
illiterate but perceptive observer
relatedWorkAuthorNationality Cuban
settingTimePeriod early 19th century
late 18th century
symbolizes disillusionment with postrevolutionary elites
the endurance of the enslaved
the oppressed Black masses of Saint-Domingue
workGenre historical novel
magic realist novel

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