Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Post-Colonial Canon by Kaiama L. Glover (review)

Many books have been written about the country of Haiti and her tumultuous past. She is often painted as the dark and mysterious stepchild of the Caribbean Islands that historically has been her own worst enemy. Western and European historians, scholars, and politicians have and continue to imply that Haiti is nothing more than a savage wasteland of inferior people that were doomed the day their enslaved African ancestors committed the ultimate sin of fighting back and winning their freedom from the mighty French over 200 years ago. After the devastating earthquake in January 2010, these same slanted sentiments where further reinforced in the media, as Haiti was put on display during a time of devastation and destruction for the world to see. Despite this historically distorted and limited representation of Ayiti, the citizens of Haiti have always created and cultivated more critical counter-narratives than what is portrayed in media and literature.