Professor Celia Britton
Professor of French
Research areas: French Caribbean literature and thought, especially Glissant, Fanon, Condé; postcolonial theory; surrealism in the Caribbean; psychoanalysis and colonialism; literature and ideology; images of community; the Nouveau Roman.
Publications include:
Books
• The Sense of Community in French Caribbean
Fiction , Liverpool
University Press, 2008, pp.190.
• Race and the Unconscious: Freudianism in
French Caribbean Thought , 2002.
• Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance , 1999.
• Claude Simon (ed), Longman, 1993.
• The Nouveau Roman: Fiction, Theory and Politics , 1992.
• Claude Simon: Writing the Visible , 1987.
Other recent publications
• ‘Transnational Languages in Glissant’s Tout-monde’, World Writing:
Poetics, Ethics, Globalization , ed. Mary Gallagher, Toronto University
Press, 2008, 62-85.
• ‘Secret
Worlds: incommunicability and initiation in three novels by Ernest Pépin’,
Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 6.1, 2008, 7-23.
•‘Interview
avec Ernest Pépin’ Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 6.1, 2008, 24-39.
- Edited volume: 'France's Colonies and the Second World
War', Esprit Créateur 47.1, Spring 2007. 'Foreword', 1-6; 'Souvenir des
années 40 à la Martinique: Interview avec Edouard Glissant',
96-104.
• ‘France’s Colonies and the
Second World War’, Esprit créateur 47.1, Spring 2007 (edited
volume).
• "Common Being" and Organic Community in
Jacques Roumain’s Gouverneurs de la rosée’, Research in African
Literatures, 37.2., 2006, 164-75.
• ‘Breaking the Rules:
Irrelevance/Irreverence in Maryse Condé’s Traversée de la mangrove’,
French Cultural Studies, 15.1, 2004, 35-47.
• 'Place, textuality and the real in
Glissant's Mahagony' in Ici-Là: Place and Displacement in French
Caribbean Literature, ed. Mary Gallagher, Amsterdam-New York, Rodopi, 2003,
83-99.
• 'Instant replays: the reintegration of
traumatic experience in Le Jardin des Plantes' in Claude Simon: A
Retrospective, ed. Jean Duffy and Alastair Duncan, Liverpool University
Press,2002, 61-76.
• 'The (De)Construction of Subjectivity in
Daniel Maximin's L'Ile et une nuit', Francophone texts and
Postcolonial Theory, ed. Celia Britton and Michael Syrotinksi,
Paragraph 24.3, November 2001, 44-58.
• 'Fictions of identity and identities of
fiction in Glissant's Tout-monde', ASCALF Yearbook 4, ed. Charles
Forsdick and Sam Haigh, 2000, 47-59.
• 'La poétique du relais dans
Mahagony et Tout-monde', in Poétiques d'Edouard
Glissant, textes réunis par Jacques Chevrier, Presses de l'Université de
Paris-Sorbonne, 1999, 169-78.
Forthcoming:
•
‘Exile, Incarceration and the Homeland: Jewish References
in French Caribbean Novels’ (8,415 words) in Comparing Postcolonial
Diasporas, ed. Michelle Keown, David Murphy and James Proctor, Palgrave
Macmillan, forthcoming 2009.
• ‘Writing and Postcolonial Theory’ (3552
words), in The Cambridge History of French Literature, ed. Bill
Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond and Emma Wilson, Cambridge University Press,
forthcoming 2009.
•
‘How to be primitive: Tropiques, surrealism and
ethnography’ (5,947 words), Paragraph, forthcoming, 2009.
•
‘Globalization and Political Action in the Writing of
Edouard Glissant’ (6,000 words), Small Axe, forthcoming, 2009.
email: celiabritton@btinternet.com
