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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Series
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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.