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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 o-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 remarkably original and thorough reading of the various concepts of language in Glissant's theoretical and literary texts. In other words, even those who know Glissant's work have much to gain by reading it.
Although Britton describes the evolution of Glissant's thought from his earliest works, most...