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082 0 _a843.91409
100 1 _aGlover, Kaiama L.
245 1 0 _aHaiti Unbound :
_bA Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon.
264 1 _aLiverpool :
_bLiverpool University Press,
_c2010.
264 4 _c�2010.
300 _a1 online resource (283 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aContemporary French and Francophone Cultures Ser. ;
_vv.15
505 0 _aHalf-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.
520 _aHistorically 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 Frank�etienne, Jean-Claude Fignol�e, and Ren�e Philoct�ete. 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aGlover, Kaiama L.
_tHaiti Unbound
_dLiverpool : Liverpool University Press,c2010
_z9781846314995
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ostimteknik/detail.action?docID=6898682
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