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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 December 2009
      20 May 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511585678
      9780521624107
      9780521624930
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511585678
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 312 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 312 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Computational Linguistics, Literary Theory, European and World Literature: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cultural Margins (6)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Computational Linguistics, Literary Theory, European and World Literature: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cultural Margins (6)
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    In this wide-ranging study, Neil Lazarus explores the subject of cultural practice in the modern world system. The book contains individual chapters on a range of topics from modernity, globalization and the 'West', and nationalism and decolonization, to cricket and popular consciousness in the English-speaking Caribbean. Lazarus analyses social movements, ideas and cultural practices that have migrated from the 'First world' to the 'Third world' over the course of the twentieth century. Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial 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. James, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Samir Amin, Raymond Williams, Paul Gilroy and Partha Chatterjee. 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.

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    "In this remarkably broad work, Lazarus calls for Markist scholars to engage postcolonial studies on its own grounds and argues for the recovery of a non-Eurocentric but nevertheless Marxist framework in place of the culturalist conceptions and idealist epistemologies that currently dominate the field with their `postism', `newism', and `endism'." Choice

    "[Lazarus] has helped to clear the ground and to orient thinking toward those critical possiblities genuinely immanent to a really existing globalization." Diaspora

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