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Article: Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance.(Review)
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- International Fiction Review
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- January 1, 2001
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Celia M. Britton Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance New World Studies Series Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. Pp. 224. $55.00 $19.50
The work of Edouard Glissant, arguably the most influential and most difficult of contemporary Caribbean Francophone writers, calls for the kind of complex but comprehensible explication that Celia Britton ably provides in this new study. Well grounded in both Francophone literature and literary theory, Britton manages to present a thorough survey of the main ideas in Glissant's six novels and seven collections of essays. (His poetry is not considered.) Britton's book ...
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