... Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Haitian literature Frankétienne Aimé Césaire Caribbean literature political isolation créolité spiralisme Grand-mère, âgée à l’époque de soixante-dix ans, n’a jamais revu Jastrame, son amant, son compagnon de vieillesse. Seule dans une pauvre province, coupée...

... 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...

... , Creolization, and Créolité ,” 211–19; and Maeve McCusker, “All Creoles Now? Béké Identity and the Éloge de la créolité ,” 220–32. Part 2 includes Martin Munro, “When the Walls Fall,” 86–88; Nathalie Batraville, “Éloge du spiralisme: Projets poétiques et politiques caribéens dans Mûr à crever de...