Richard Serrano begins his provocative new work Against the
Postcolonial with the bold statement that OFrancophone studies is
mostly a mirage, while postcolonial studies is mostly a delusion.O
He argues that many attempts to use postcoloniality to account for
francophone writers tell us more about the criticsO assumptions
than about the writersO works. Furthermore, he asserts that
postcolonial studies, with its antecedents as an Anglophone Indian
project that emerged in response to the weakening British Raj, is
but one sort of narrative of colonialism into which writers of
French expression do not neatly fit. In an insightful exploration
of the work of five writers from lands formerly or currently ruled
by France_Algeria, Cambodia, Guiana, Madagascar, and Mali_Serrano
demonstrates the rewards of research that engages in textual
analysis within its historical and literary context. He deftly
argues against the relevance of a homogenizing critical practice;
considering these writers Opostcolonial,O he claims, is to
misunderstand their aesthetic strategies for survival in the face
of French colonialism and modernism. Scholars of Francophone
literature, postcolonial studies, and world literature will relish
SerranoOs lively invitation to debate and masterful analysis of
five brilliant artists.
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