
Rita Indiana was born in the Dominican Republic in 1977. She is a writer, singer, songwriter and performer. She is the author of short stories, gathered in several collections : Rumiantes (1998), Ciencia succión (2001) and six novels : La estrategia de Chochueca (2003), Papi (2005), Nombres y animales (2013), La mucama de Omincunlé (2015), Hecho en Saturno (2018). La mucama de Omincunlé received in 2017 the Grand Prize of the Association of Caribbean Writers. This novel was translated into English and published as Tentacle. Rita Indiana has participated in a large number of artistic collective projects. This paper addresses the close link between transmission and orality, writing and musicality. The aim is to demonstrate how Rita Indiana creates a transmission based on literary performance. Her novels express and transmit the complete vitality of Caribbean art.