Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World

ISBN-13: 9780521624930 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 312 str.

Neil Lazarus; Timothy Brennan

Opis

This wide-ranging study contains individual chapers on modernity, globalization and the "West," nationalism and decolonization, cricket and popular consciousness in the English-speaking Caribbean, and African pop music. Neil Lazarus offers extended discussions 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.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

Introduction: hating tradition properly; 1. Globalization, modernity and the 'West'; 2. Disavowing decolonization: nationalism, intellectuals, and the question of representation in postcolonial theory; 3. Cricket, modernism, national culture: the case of C. L. R. James; 4. 'Unsystematic fingers at the conditions of the times': Afropop and the paradoxes of imperialism.