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...
Richard Serrano begins his provocative new work Against the Postcolonial with the bold statement that OFrancophone studies is mostly a mirage, while p...
Richard Serrano begins his provocative new work Against the Postcolonial with the bold statement that "Francophone studies is mostly a mirage, while postcolonial studies is mostly a delusion." He argues that many attempts to use postcoloniality to account for francophone writers tell us more about the critics' assumptions than about the writers' 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...
Richard Serrano begins his provocative new work Against the Postcolonial with the bold statement that "Francophone studies is mostly a mirage, while p...
In his wide-ranging studies of poetic borrowing, Serrano uncovers the heterogeneity of influences in canonical texts from the Arabic, Chinese and French: Buhturi (821-97) and the Qur'an (7th century ce), Wang Wei (701-61) and the Classic of Poetry (8th century bce), StEphane MallarmE (1842-98) and Victor Segalen (1878-1919). Serrano brings methodologies developed for the study of one literature to bear on the reading of another, and often with surprising results. He shows, among other things, that MallarmE was really a Chinese poet, that ancient Chinese poets discovered the workings of film...
In his wide-ranging studies of poetic borrowing, Serrano uncovers the heterogeneity of influences in canonical texts from the Arabic, Chinese and Fren...
This book examines the complex and dynamic relationship between the Qur'an and Arabic poetry. Its four case studies focus on anomalies and contradictions within the Qur'ano-Arabic literary tradition in order to demonstrate how the tension between the Qur'an and poetry generates meaning.
This book examines the complex and dynamic relationship between the Qur'an and Arabic poetry. Its four case studies focus on anomalies and contradict...
