Haiti Unbound : A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon /
"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 histo...
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Introduction : the consequences of ex-centricity
- part II. Shifty/shifting characters. Beings without borders
- Zombies become warriors
- Productive schizophrenia
- part III. Space-time of the spiral. Haiti unbound?
- Present-ing the past
- Haiti in the whirl/world
- part IV. Showing vs. telling. The stylistics of possession
- Framing the folk
- Schizophonic solutions
- part V. Conclusions : no lack of language.