Maryse Condé’s youth novel Rêves amers appeared for the first time in the magazine Je bouquine in 1987 before being taken up by the Bayard youth editions in 2001. Dealing with the tragic experience of migration, it highlights the recurrent reality of social slavery (Mbembe 2013). « The French-language novel from the Antilles also brings about a considerable change in the nature of human beings. The men and women who are its heroes do not belong to a well-defined category. They undermine the concept of race. They are the result of various influences. They carry multiple bloods within them and are often half-breeds, sensitive to the color of their skin which conditions the quality of their existence » recently confided Maryse Condé in an interview conducted by Roger Célestin (153). This work, which was published in its initial form shortly before Crossing the mangrove, treats Haiti and the Caribbean as spaces of revolt against the historical curse of brutal reports of colonization (Carruggi). If the novel Rêves amers has had a certain reception within the framework of children’s literarure and pedagogy, it remains relatively neglected in academic literary studies. However, the reference to Haiti is central with the advent of the first independent Black Republic in the New World. The hypothesis here is that Maryse Condé has proposed a didactic book intended to train the yonger generations to question what is taught from a postcolonial perspective. The content, themes and style of this book served as the basis for the series of novels that followed. Our study will focus on the analysis of the relationship between death and dreaming to identify a fundamental position on how to account for socio-historical relationships resulting from colonialism. In this context, Haiti remains the promise of an unfinished emancipation which is taught to the younger generations. These works seem neglected by the critics perhaps because their didactic style is much clearer.