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Article: Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Celia Britton. Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance. Charlottesville. University Press of Virginia. 1999. 224 pages. $55 ($19.50 paper). isbn 0-8139-1848-0 (1849-9 paper).
Celia Britton modestly positions her book on Edouard Glissant as a corrective to the frequent omission of the work of the Martinican theorist of Caribbeanness and creolization in discussions of postcolonial theory. But Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory does considerably more than that. Britton's text, purportedly written for an audience that is familiar with anglophone postcolonial theory and generally unfamiliar with Glissant's work, provides a ...