Contents: Close reading of French poetry - Breton literature of French expression - The construction of Brittany or Bretonness in literary texts - Romanticism and the 'invention' of Brittany - Authenticity and French-language representations of Brittany - Internal colonialism in France - Postcolonial literary criticism.
The Author: Heather Williams read Modern Languages (French) at St. Hilda's College, Oxford, and has held posts at the Universities of Oxford, Nottingham and Aberystwyth. She is currently Pilcher Senior Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. She has published widely on Mallarmé and on the representation of Brittany in French literature.