... racisée du travail 4 . Première œuvre narrative de Frankétienne et première œuvre « spiraliste », Mûr à crever paraît en 1968 en Haïti sous l’appellation « genre total ». 5 Né trois ans avant cette publication, en 1965, au cœur du régime de François Duvalier, le spiralisme est une esthétique...

... distinctly discrete theoretical volumes, as opposed to the theoryless Spiralism, for which there is this one sort of theoretical contribution, do we not also find similar long, meandering styles in Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau that echo the 9 See Kaiama L. Glover, “Spiralisme and Antillanité...

.... Spiralisme, a movement formed in the mid-1960s by Frankétienne, René Philoctète, and Jean-Claude Fignolé, was the most important literary movement to emerge from Haiti during the dictatorship of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier and Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duva- lier (1957–86). Despite...

...-aesthetic and provide a hint of the reason for its relative exclusion, noting that “within Haiti the only movement with any literary impact was the ill-defined[emphasis mine] doctrine of spiralisme.” A Haiti Anthology: Libète. (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1999), 292...

... Munro, “When the Walls Fall,” 86–88; Nathalie Batraville, “Éloge du spiralisme: Projets poétiques et politiques caribéens dans Mûr à crever de Frankétienne,” 89–102; Dominique Chancé, “In Praise of Complexity,” 103–14; Christina Kullberg, “Créolité and the Regime of Visibility: Reading Les neuf...