Language and Literary Form in French Caribbean Writing
ISBN: 9781781385869
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Liverpool University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

This book analyses French Caribbean writing from the point of view of its language and literary form - questions which until recently were somewhat neglected in postcolonial studies but are now becoming an important area of research. Britton supplements postcolonial theory with structuralism and poststructuralism to show how analysis of the textual illuminates the political and ideological positions of the writers. Topics including genre, intertextuality, narrative voice, discursive agency, orality, the 'creolization' of languages and the renewal of realism are discussed in relation to Glissant, Césaire, Ménil, Chamoiseau, Confiant, Depestre, Condé, Schwarz-Bart, Pineau and Maximin.

Celia Britton is Professor Emerita of French at University College London. Her previous books include The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction (Liverpool University Press, 2010) and the co-edited American Creoles: The Francophone Caribbean and the American South (Liverpool University Press, 2012).

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