Richard Serrano begins his 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 most attempts to use postcoloniality to account for francophone writers tells us more about the critics’ assumptions than about the writers’ work. 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.