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It goes without saying that the literature of migration in Quebec plays a fundamental role in the construction of identity of the Quebecois subject. For some migrant writers such as Dany Laferrière, the thematization of the religious phenomenon serves as a strategy to help establish an intercultural dialogue, as well as the political conditions of its realisation in the host society. This article aims to question the religious structure of Laferrière's How to Make Love to a Negro. If the author uses Islam and the Coran in order to revise and assess the black condition in Quebec, the representation of this Islam problematizes in almost a classical way the dialogue with the Islamic Orient as an objective reality. Laferrière's novel textualizes a type of knowledge about Islam that is largely mediated and governed by the kitsch and the stereotype as aesthetic modalities that inscribe the author's writing in the orientalist discourse of Quebec literature. It is in the light of this textuality that the relationship to the Muslim Other as the outsider and the shizophrenic at the margins History has to be understood. Laferrière's prefabricated idea of islamic religion allows for an experience of Islam which does not transcend the levels of “flottaison” and superficiality. If the postmodern discourse is marked by these tendancies, the latter serve as an agent of closure that evacuates all the complexity of the dialogue with the Other.