Against the postcolonial; "francophone" writers at the ends of French empire. (reprint, 2005).9780739120293 Against the postcolonial post·co·lo·ni·al adj. Of, relating to, or being the time following the establishment of independence in a colony: postcolonial economics. ; "francophone" writers at the ends of French empire. (reprint, 2005) Serrano ser·ra·no n. pl. ser·ra·nos A cultivar of the tropical pepper Capsicum annuum having small, blunt, highly pungent red or green fruit used in cooking. , Richard. Lexington Books 2007 179 pages $25.95 Paperback After the empire PQ3897 This is a paperbound pa·per·bound adj. Bound in paper; paperback. edition of a 2007 book. Serrano presents a provocative argument that most attempts to use postcolonialism to account for francophone writers reveal more about the critics' assumptions than about the writers' work. He also asserts that Postcolonial Studies, with its antecedents as an Anglophone Indian project that emerged in response to the weakening British Raj For the band "British India" see British India (band). British Raj (rāj, lit. "rule" in Hindi) or British India, officially the British Indian Empire, and internationally and contemporaneously, India , is only one kind of narrative of colonialism and one into which French writers do not neatly fit. Serrano uses the work of writers from countries formerly or currently ruled by France to demonstrate the fallacy fallacy, in logic, a term used to characterize an invalid argument. Strictly speaking, it refers only to the transition from a set of premises to a conclusion, and is distinguished from falsity, a value attributed to a single statement. of a homogenizing critical practice. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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