Lifting the Sentence The Poetics of Postcolonial Fiction

Is the term "postcolonial fiction" meaningful? Is there any such thing as a postcolonial literary aesthetic? Robert Fraser's contention in this thought-provoking book is that these questions can be answered in the affirmative only if postcoloniality is interpreted, less as a condition than as a development through six specified historical phases. As the penal "sentence" of imperialism is gradually lifted, he argues, successive types of syntactical "sentence" have come into play: colonial and postcolonial grammars, distinctive uses of person, tense, mood, and form.Fraser, Robert is the author of 'Lifting the Sentence The Poetics of Postcolonial Fiction' with ISBN 9780719053719 and ISBN 0719053714.