NEIL LAZARUS is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. This book is a politically focused, materialist intervention into postcolonial and cultural studies, and constitutes a major reappraisal of the debates on politics and culture in these fields. James, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Samir Amin, Raymond Williams, Paul Gilroy, and Partha Chatterjee. Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Post-Ĭolonial World offers an enormously erudite reading of culture and society in today's world and includes extended discussion of the work of such influential writers, critics, and activists as Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. Lazarus analyzes social movements, ideas, and cultural practices that have migrated across the international division of labor - from the "first world" to the "third world" - over the course of the twentieth century. The book contains individual chapters on modernity, globalization and the "West," nationalism and decolonization, cricket and popular consciousness in the English-speaking Caribbean, and African pop music. In this wide-ranging study, Neil Lazarus explores the subject of cultural practice in the modern world system. Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World
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