Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance

by Celia Britton

Book Overview

Edouard Glissant has written extensively in French about the colonial experience in the Caribbean. Since he is known primarily as a novelist and poet, his theoretical essays have so far remained largely unread by the English-language theorists in this field. This book situates Glissant within ongoing debates in postcolonial theory, making illuminating connections between his work and that of Frantz Fanon, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Henry Louis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813918499
• ISBN13: 9780813918495
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"