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Author Glover, Kaiama L., 1972-

Title Haiti unbound : a spiralist challenge to the postcolonial canon / by Kaiama L. Glover
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (xxiv, 262 pages))
Series Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 15
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 15.
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
Summary "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 history. This book offers a close look at the works of three such writers: the Haitian Spiralists Frankétienne, Jean-Claude Fignolé, and René Philoctète. While Spiralism has been acknowledged by scholars and regional writer-intellectuals, the Spiralist ethic-aesthetic not yet been given the sustained attention of a full-length study. This book attempts to consider the works of the three Spiralist authors both individually and collectively. This book engages with long-standing issues of imperialism and resistance culture in the transatlantic world. It emphatically articulates Haiti's regional and global centrality, combining vital 'big picture' reflections on the field of postcolonial studies with elegant close-reading-based analyses of the philosophical perspective and creative practice of a distinctively Haitian literary phenomenon."--Publisher's description
Analysis Haiti
Postcolonial
Spiritualism
Post Koloniaal
Spiritualisme
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index
Notes English
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Subject Frankétienne -- Criticism and interpretation
Fignolé, Jean Claude -- Criticism and interpretation
Philoctète, René -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Philoctete, Rene -- Criticism and interpretation
Fignole, Jean Claude -- Criticism and interpretation
Franketienne -- Criticism and interpretation
Fignolé, Jean Claude fast
Frankétienne fast
Philoctète, René fast
Fignolé, Jean Claude 1941- gnd
Frankétienne 1936- gnd
Philoctète, René 1932-1995 gnd
Fignolé, Jean-Claude. idszbz
Frankétienne. idszbz
Philoctète, René. idszbz
Subject Haitian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Humanities.
Religion and beliefs.
Alternative belief systems.
Contemporary non-Christian and para-Christian cults and sects.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Haitian fiction
Französisch
Literatur
Literatur.
Haiti
Haiti.
Französisches Sprachgebiet.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019667615
ISBN 9781846316500
1846316502
9781781386705
1781386706
9781781386613
1781386617
9781846314537
1846314534