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&...

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Autor Principal: Glover, Kaiama L., 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.