This article examines how symbolic violence manifests itself in Acadian and Caribbean literatures. It is defined as the colonial legacy, related to a subjectivity and to what presided over the logic that structured the slave trade to the West Indies and the deportation of the Acadians out of their lands inhabited since the beginning of the French colonization of the Americas. Antonine Maillet and Patrick Chamoiseau’s need to deal with this situation thanks to a recourse to the imaginary is not addressed as a single outlet but as a «terrain» conducive to the advent of a liberation or, more prosaically, to a form of appeasement. The article thus takes the opportunity to reflect on the way in which this imaginary can modify reality, to improve it even, enhanced as it is by the word, by the tale and by a narration at times similar to religious or mystical practices.