Haiti Unbound : : A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon.

• Superior document: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Series ; v.15
• Author: Glover, Kaiama L.
• Place / Publishing House: Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2011.; ©2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (283 pages)

Historically and contemporarily, politically and literarily, Haiti has long been relegated to the margins of the so-called 'New World.' Marked by exceptionalism, the voices of some of its most important writers have consequently been muted by the geopolitical realities of the nation's fraught history. In Haiti Unbound, Kaiama L. Glover offers a close look at the works of three such writers: the Haitian Spiralists Frankétienne, Jean-Claude Fignolé, and René Philoctète. While Spiralism has been acknowledged by scholars and regional writer-intellectuals alike as a crucial contribution to the French-speaking Caribbean literary tradition, the Spiralist ethic-aesthetic not yet been given the sustained attention of a full-length study. Glover's book represents the first effort in any language to consider the works of the three Spiralist authors both individually and collectively, and so fills an astonishingly empty place in the assessment of postcolonial Caribbean aesthetics. Touching on the role and desti.

Table of Contents

Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I Introduction The Consequences of Ex-Centricity -- Part II Shifty/Shifting Characters -- 1. Beings Without Borders -- 2. Zombies Become Warriors -- 3. Productive Schizophrenia -- Part III Space-Time of the Spiral -- 4. Haiti Unbound? -- 5. Present-ing the Past -- 6. Haiti in the Whirl/World -- Part IV Showing vs. Telling -- 7. The Stylistics of Possession -- 8. Framing the Folk -- 9. Schizophonic Solutions -- Part V Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Index.