Haiti Unbound - A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon

Klappentext 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 Franketienne! Jean-Claude Fignole! and Rene Philoctete. While Spiralism has been acknowledged as a crucial contribution to the French-speaking Caribbean literary tradition! it has not been given the sustained attention of a full-length study. Glover's book represents the first effort to consider the works of the three Spiralist authors both individually and collectively! filling an important gap in postcolonial Francophone and Caribbean studies. Zusammenfassung Historically and contemporarily, politically and literarily, Haiti has long been relegated to the margins of the so-called 'New World.' This book looks at the works of three such writers: the Haitian Spiralists Franketienne, Jean-Claude Fignole, and Rene Philoctete.

Product details

• Authors: Kaiama L. Glover, Kaiama L. (French Department Glover
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.03.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9781846314995
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-499-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO; Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies