Kaiama L. Glover is Associate Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University and author of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool University Press 2010).

• Contents Acknowledgements PrefacePart I Introduction: The Consequences of Ex-CentricityPart II Shifty/Shifting Characters 1. Beings Without Borders 2 Zombies Become Warriors 3. Productive SchizophreniaPart III Space-Time of the Spiral 4. Haiti Unbound? 5. Present-ing the Past 6. Haiti in the Whirl/WorldPart IV Showing vs. Telling 7. The Stylistics of Possession 8. Framing the Folk 9. Schizophonic SolutionsPart V Conclusions: No Lack of Language Works Cited Index

Kaiama Glover’s stunning elucidation of Haitian Spiralist literature is a tour-de-force... If Spiralism itself constitutes the most magnificent cultural artifice of Haitian dystopia, Glover’s groundbreaking study is essential reading for those interested in exploring the limits of Caribbean expression achieved by these superb writers, and the volcanic intensity of the literary movement that has perhaps most fully expressed the ‘schizophonic’ beauty and horror of Haitian reality.

Kaiama L. Glover is Associate Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University and author of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool University Press 2010).

• Contents Acknowledgements PrefacePart I Introduction: The Consequences of Ex-CentricityPart II Shifty/Shifting Characters 1. Beings Without Borders 2 Zombies Become Warriors 3. Productive SchizophreniaPart III Space-Time of the Spiral 4. Haiti Unbound? 5. Present-ing the Past 6. Haiti in the Whirl/WorldPart IV Showing vs. Telling 7. The Stylistics of Possession 8. Framing the Folk 9. Schizophonic SolutionsPart V Conclusions: No Lack of Language Works Cited Index

Kaiama Glover’s stunning elucidation of Haitian Spiralist literature is a tour-de-force... If Spiralism itself constitutes the most magnificent cultural artifice of Haitian dystopia, Glover’s groundbreaking study is essential reading for those interested in exploring the limits of Caribbean expression achieved by these superb writers, and the volcanic intensity of the literary movement that has perhaps most fully expressed the ‘schizophonic’ beauty and horror of Haitian reality.

Kaiama L. Glover is Associate Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University and author of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool University Press 2010).

• Contents Acknowledgements PrefacePart I Introduction: The Consequences of Ex-CentricityPart II Shifty/Shifting Characters 1. Beings Without Borders 2 Zombies Become Warriors 3. Productive SchizophreniaPart III Space-Time of the Spiral 4. Haiti Unbound? 5. Present-ing the Past 6. Haiti in the Whirl/WorldPart IV Showing vs. Telling 7. The Stylistics of Possession 8. Framing the Folk 9. Schizophonic SolutionsPart V Conclusions: No Lack of Language Works Cited Index

Kaiama Glover’s stunning elucidation of Haitian Spiralist literature is a tour-de-force... If Spiralism itself constitutes the most magnificent cultural artifice of Haitian dystopia, Glover’s groundbreaking study is essential reading for those interested in exploring the limits of Caribbean expression achieved by these superb writers, and the volcanic intensity of the literary movement that has perhaps most fully expressed the ‘schizophonic’ beauty and horror of Haitian reality.