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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422358506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pt. I. Introduction : the consequences of ex-centricity
- pt. II. Shifty/shifting characters. Beings without borders
- Zombies become warriors
- Productive schizophrenia
- pt. III. Space-time of the spiral. Haiti unbound?
- Present-ing the past
- Haiti in the whirl/world
- pt. IV. Showing vs. telling. The stylistics of possession
- Framing the folk
- Schizophonic solutions
- pt. V. Conclusions : no lack of language.
