Haiti unbound : : a spiralist challenge to the postcolonial canon / / by Kaiama L. Glover.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 262 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Introduction : the consequences of ex-centricity
- pt. II. Shifty/shifting characters. Beings without borders
- Zombies become warriors
- Productive schizophrenia
- pt. III. Space-time of the spiral. Haiti unbound?
- Present-ing the past
- Haiti in the whirl/world
- pt. IV. Showing vs. telling. The stylistics of possession
- Framing the folk
- Schizophonic solutions
- pt. V. Conclusions : no lack of language.