A Limited Caribbeanness? The Continental Caribbean as: Visions of Hell in Alejo Carpentier's El siglo de las luces and Maryse Condé's La vie scélérate

Alejo Carpentieri El siglo de las luces and Maryse Condé's La vie scélérate are both novels that reflect the wandering of the Caribbean people, on the individual as well as collective level. These two works explore intraregional connections, more specifically between Cuba, Guadeloupe and French Guyana at the time of the French and Haitian revolutions for Carpentieri novel and between Guadeloupe, Panama, and California in the early twentieth century for Maryse Condé's novel. What is striking is the way in which, what with the climate and the hard working conditions endured by the new migrants, the continental Caribbean figures as an earthly version of Hell in these works by Antilleans.