This article addresses the problematics of cultural transfers in general and, in particular, the passage of literary texts written in far-away francophone contexts such as the French Caribbean into a context where writings commonly termed postcolonial do not exist - in this case, Germany. Based on the translations of two novels, La Reine Soled levee by Gérard Etienne and Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau, I will analyze the difficulties of transposing texts that are already imbued with alterity - a transposition that necessitates other strategies than the common practice of banalization, or even the one chosen by the translator, which may be defined as exoticization.