Neil Lazarus
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 107350 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Neil Lazarus |
| NOMBRES | Neil |
| APELLIDO | Lazarus |
| FIRMA | LAZARUS N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Warwick |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 187 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Into Our Labours
Into Our Labours explores the literary representation of work across the globe since 1850, setting out to show that the literature of modernity is best understood in the light of the worlding of capitalism. The book proposes that a determinative relation exists between changing modes of work and changes in the forms, genres, and aesthetic strategies of the writing that bears witness to them. Two aspects of the ‘worlding’ of modernity, especially,…
Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket
Afterword
I very much admire the engagement demonstrated by the essays featured here, all of which I’ve enjoyed reading and from many of which I’ve learned a considerable amount. For the most part, however, I won’t be referring explicitly to these essays in what follows. Instead, I’d like to use the opportunity presented to me – I must extend my thanks to Alexander Fyfe for inviting me to write this Afterword – to make a few general observations about the …
The world-literary system and the Atlantic
Stephen Shapiro is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of Warwick, UK. Before joining Warwick, he taught at Harvard University, the New School, and John Jay College fo
The world-literary system and the Atlantic
Vivek Chibber and the spectre of postcolonial theory
In this critical assessment of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital, the author argues that the book contributes appreciably to the materialist critique of postcolonial studies, but that its effect is weakened both by its tone and its failure to identify its object precisely enough. In conflating the historiographic project of 'Subaltern Studies' with 'postcolonial theory', Chibber misrepresents the histories of each of …
Epilogue
I begin this commentary by considering Walter Benjamin's idea of history alongside that of Mahasweta Devi, in her long story, ‘Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha’. The goal is to bring various ideas of temporality and historical periodisation into relief, ranging from the narrowly conjunctural, to ‘capitalism’ and ‘modernity’, and on to the notion of ‘universal history’. I then attempt to periodise postcolonial studies as a form of ‘third world…
Spectres haunting
In this essay, I attempt to take stock of recent suggestions that the literatures and cultures of the former Soviet bloc countries be considered "postcolonial". I begin by asking what is intended by this suggestion. While it is necessary to recognize that the Russian imperium and the Soviet order that succeeded it were clearly colonial in character, there are some good reasons to wonder whether the assimilation of "post-Soviet" criticism to "the …
The Postcolonial Unconscious
The Postcolonial Unconscious is a major attempt to reconstruct the whole field of postcolonial studies. In this magisterial and, at times, polemical study, Neil Lazarus argues that the key critical concepts that form the very foundation of the field need to be re-assessed and questioned. Drawing on a vast range of literary sources, Lazarus investigates works and authors from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Arab world, South, South…
Cosmopolitanism and the Specificity of the Local in World Literature
Taking its cue from recent scholarship de-linking the idea of “modernity” from the idea of “the West”, this article advocates the notion of “world literature” as the body of literature that has, in the last 150 to 200 years, registered and encoded the social logic of modernity. Building on Franco Moretti’s postulation of a single world-literary system (structured not merely by difference but also by inequality) and on the theoretical work of Fred…
What postcolonial theory doesn't say
This article proposes that there is a category error at the heart of 'postcolonial studies' as an academic field. There has been a notable failure in the field to situate the historical projects of colonialism and imperialism in the determinant contexts of the inception, consolidation and development of the modern world system, whose developmental logic is that of combined and uneven development. Even on the best postcolonialist accounts, imperia…
The pitch of the world
Part of Chris Searle's wide-ranging contribution to Race & Class - and the subject of this article - is a body of cricket writing that exposes the crippling imperial legacies of the game but still insists on its potential for the future, particularly in England; a future Searle understands as emerging from the country's working-class, multi-ethnic, inner-city communities. Searle is indebted to C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary (1963) and, like J…
Chapter Seventeen. Marxism and postcolonial studies
This chapter traces the career of postcolonial studies as an academic field of enquiry and examines its founding principles by periodising it within the key global economic and social transformations since 1945. It looks at and assesses some of the central debates within postcolonial studies the critique of Eurocentrism; nationalism; subalternity; the positing of an alternative modernity; and the retreat from politics to ethics. Throughout the po…
Penser le postcolonial. Une introduction critique
Frantz Fanon
Representations of the Intellectual in Representations of the Intellectual
In this essay, I offer a reading of Edward W. Said's intellectual politics and of his understanding of intellectualism. I begin by discussing the debate over the status and value of Said's most celebrated and influential book, Orientalism, situating this debate in the context both of the reassertion of imperial dominance that began in the 1970s and is still very much in train and—within the academy—of the rise of postcolonial studies. Said's poli…
Representation and terror in V.Y. Mudimbe
In the field of Postcolonial Studies, no debate today is more consequential or vexed, than that concerning representation. The questions: Who speaks? Of and for whom? How, where, and to what ends? In which languages? Through means of which concepts and categories? On the basis of which problematics and epistemological assumptions? – are all central to contemporary scholarship in the field. Generally speaking, the question of representation has be…
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, first published in 2004, offers a lucid introduction and overview of one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies. The volume aims to introduce readers to key concepts, methods, theories, thematic concerns, and contemporary debates in the field. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, contributors explain the impact of history, sociology and philosophy o…
The Cambridge companion to postcolonial literary studies
The South African Ideology
Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies
At a time when even much of the political left seems to believe that transnational capitalism is here to stay, Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies refuses to accept the inevitability of the so-called 'New World Order'. By giving substantial attention to topics such as globalisation, racism, and modernity, it provides a specifically Marxist intervention into postcolonial and cultural studies. An international team of contributors locate a …
The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism
In recent years – since the mid 1990s, say – a more or less concerted materialist critique has arisen of the epistemological and ideological tendencies that have been foremost in postcolonial studies from the time of its initial consolidation as an academic field of enquiry in the elite universities of the anglophone world. While it would clearly be too much to claim that this emergent critique has succeeded in overturning the ruling tenets and p…
Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World
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'…
The Prose of Insurgency
Disavowing decolonization
Le rejet du nationalisme dans les theories contemporaines du discours colonial, a partir d'une relecture de l'eurocentrisme et du marxisme de F. Fanon dans sa denonciation de l'ideologie nationaliste bourgeoise
Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World
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'…
Spectres haunting
In this essay, I attempt to take stock of recent suggestions that the literatures and cultures of the former Soviet bloc countries be considered "postcolonial". I begin by asking what is intended by this suggestion. While it is necessary to recognize that the Russian imperium and the Soviet order that succeeded it were clearly colonial in character, there are some good reasons to wonder whether the assimilation of "post-Soviet" criticism to "the …
Cosmopolitanism and the Specificity of the Local in World Literature
Taking its cue from recent scholarship de-linking the idea of “modernity” from the idea of “the West”, this article advocates the notion of “world literature” as the body of literature that has, in the last 150 to 200 years, registered and encoded the social logic of modernity. Building on Franco Moretti’s postulation of a single world-literary system (structured not merely by difference but also by inequality) and on the theoretical work of Fred…
What postcolonial theory doesn't say
This article proposes that there is a category error at the heart of 'postcolonial studies' as an academic field. There has been a notable failure in the field to situate the historical projects of colonialism and imperialism in the determinant contexts of the inception, consolidation and development of the modern world system, whose developmental logic is that of combined and uneven development. Even on the best postcolonialist accounts, imperia…
The South African Ideology
Penser le postcolonial. Une introduction critique
Modernism and Modernity
Neil Lazarus, Modernism and Modernity: T. W. Adorno and Contemporary White South African Literature, Cultural Critique, No. 5, Modernity and Modernism, Postmodernity and Postmodernism (Winter, 1986-1987), pp. 131-155
Is a Counterculture of Modernity a Theory of Modernity
Diaspora 4:3 1995 Is a Counterculture of Modernity a Theory of Modernity? Neil Lazarus The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Paul GiIroy . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. The Black Atlantic is a rich, rewarding, and immensely ambitious work. Predicating itself upon the assumption that "the history and expressive culture of the African diaspora, the practice of racial slavery, [and] . . . the narratives of European imp…
Doubting the New World Order
Research Article| November 01 1991 Doubting the New World Order: Marxism, Realism, and the Claims of Postmodernist Social Theory Neil Lazarus Neil Lazarus Neil Lazarus is Associate Professor of English and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He is the author of Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (New Haven: Yale UP, 1990) and is currently working on a book to be called "Hating Tradition Properly: The Politics of Culture in the P…
Postcolonialism and the Dilemma of Nationalism
The publication of In Theory has been eagerly awaited since 1987. That was the year in which Aijaz Ahmad made an important intervention into the fields of cultural studies and colonial discourse analysis in the United States by offering a powerful critique of a rather remarkable article, "Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism," which Fredric Jameson had published a year earlier in the radical New York-based journal Social …
The Mandarin Marxism of Theodor Adorno
1988). The Mandarin Marxism of Theodor Adorno. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 85-111
The Necessity of Universalism
Research Article| April 01 1995 The Necessity of Universalism Neil Lazarus; Neil Lazarus neil, lazarus is Associate Professor of English and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Author of Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (1990), he is currently completing work on a new book, Hating Tradition Properly. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Steven Evans; Steven Evans steven evans, a graduate student at Brown …
Imperialism, Cultural Theory, and Radical Intellectualism Today
(1990). Imperialism, Cultural Theory, and Radical Intellectualism Today: A Critical Assessment. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 3, No. 3-4, pp. 156-164
Epilogue
I begin this commentary by considering Walter Benjamin's idea of history alongside that of Mahasweta Devi, in her long story, ‘Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha’. The goal is to bring various ideas of temporality and historical periodisation into relief, ranging from the narrowly conjunctural, to ‘capitalism’ and ‘modernity’, and on to the notion of ‘universal history’. I then attempt to periodise postcolonial studies as a form of ‘third world…
Vivek Chibber and the spectre of postcolonial theory
In this critical assessment of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital, the author argues that the book contributes appreciably to the materialist critique of postcolonial studies, but that its effect is weakened both by its tone and its failure to identify its object precisely enough. In conflating the historiographic project of 'Subaltern Studies' with 'postcolonial theory', Chibber misrepresents the histories of each of …
The pitch of the world
Part of Chris Searle's wide-ranging contribution to Race & Class - and the subject of this article - is a body of cricket writing that exposes the crippling imperial legacies of the game but still insists on its potential for the future, particularly in England; a future Searle understands as emerging from the country's working-class, multi-ethnic, inner-city communities. Searle is indebted to C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary (1963) and, like J…
Representations of the Intellectual in Representations of the Intellectual
In this essay, I offer a reading of Edward W. Said's intellectual politics and of his understanding of intellectualism. I begin by discussing the debate over the status and value of Said's most celebrated and influential book, Orientalism, situating this debate in the context both of the reassertion of imperial dominance that began in the 1970s and is still very much in train and—within the academy—of the rise of postcolonial studies. Said's poli…
Representation and terror in V.Y. Mudimbe
In the field of Postcolonial Studies, no debate today is more consequential or vexed, than that concerning representation. The questions: Who speaks? Of and for whom? How, where, and to what ends? In which languages? Through means of which concepts and categories? On the basis of which problematics and epistemological assumptions? – are all central to contemporary scholarship in the field. Generally speaking, the question of representation has be…
The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism
In recent years – since the mid 1990s, say – a more or less concerted materialist critique has arisen of the epistemological and ideological tendencies that have been foremost in postcolonial studies from the time of its initial consolidation as an academic field of enquiry in the elite universities of the anglophone world. While it would clearly be too much to claim that this emergent critique has succeeded in overturning the ruling tenets and p…
The Prose of Insurgency
Modernism and Modernity
Neil Lazarus, Modernism and Modernity: T. W. Adorno and Contemporary White South African Literature, Cultural Critique, No. 5, Modernity and Modernism, Postmodernity and Postmodernism (Winter, 1986-1987), pp. 131-155
Longing, radicalism, sentimentality
A Season in Paradse' is an account of a three-month visit that Breyten Breytenbach, the celebrated Afrikaans writer and painter living in exile in Paris, made to South Africa with his French-born Vietnamese wife, Yolande, in 1972-73. Breytenbach had left South Africa in 1959, not as an exile, but as a young, would-be artist, eager to test himself and make his mark in Europe. In 1961 he settled in Paris, and later that year he married Yolande. The…
The Mandarin Marxism of Theodor Adorno
1988). The Mandarin Marxism of Theodor Adorno. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 85-111
Reply to Dan Kiamie and Rita DeSalvo
Imperialism, Cultural Theory, and Radical Intellectualism Today
(1990). Imperialism, Cultural Theory, and Radical Intellectualism Today: A Critical Assessment. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 3, No. 3-4, pp. 156-164
Doubting the New World Order
Research Article| November 01 1991 Doubting the New World Order: Marxism, Realism, and the Claims of Postmodernist Social Theory Neil Lazarus Neil Lazarus Neil Lazarus is Associate Professor of English and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He is the author of Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (New Haven: Yale UP, 1990) and is currently working on a book to be called "Hating Tradition Properly: The Politics of Culture in the P…
Postcolonialism and the Dilemma of Nationalism
The publication of In Theory has been eagerly awaited since 1987. That was the year in which Aijaz Ahmad made an important intervention into the fields of cultural studies and colonial discourse analysis in the United States by offering a powerful critique of a rather remarkable article, "Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism," which Fredric Jameson had published a year earlier in the radical New York-based journal Social …
African Music
Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction
The Necessity of Universalism
Research Article| April 01 1995 The Necessity of Universalism Neil Lazarus; Neil Lazarus neil, lazarus is Associate Professor of English and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Author of Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (1990), he is currently completing work on a new book, Hating Tradition Properly. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Steven Evans; Steven Evans steven evans, a graduate student at Brown …
Is a Counterculture of Modernity a Theory of Modernity
Diaspora 4:3 1995 Is a Counterculture of Modernity a Theory of Modernity? Neil Lazarus The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Paul GiIroy . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. The Black Atlantic is a rich, rewarding, and immensely ambitious work. Predicating itself upon the assumption that "the history and expressive culture of the African diaspora, the practice of racial slavery, [and] . . . the narratives of European imp…
Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World
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'…
The Prose of Insurgency
Charting globalisation
Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies
At a time when even much of the political left seems to believe that transnational capitalism is here to stay, Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies refuses to accept the inevitability of the so-called 'New World Order'. By giving substantial attention to topics such as globalisation, racism, and modernity, it provides a specifically Marxist intervention into postcolonial and cultural studies. An international team of contributors locate a …
The Politics of Postcolonial Modernism
In recent years – since the mid 1990s, say – a more or less concerted materialist critique has arisen of the epistemological and ideological tendencies that have been foremost in postcolonial studies from the time of its initial consolidation as an academic field of enquiry in the elite universities of the anglophone world. While it would clearly be too much to claim that this emergent critique has succeeded in overturning the ruling tenets and p…
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, first published in 2004, offers a lucid introduction and overview of one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies. The volume aims to introduce readers to key concepts, methods, theories, thematic concerns, and contemporary debates in the field. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, contributors explain the impact of history, sociology and philosophy o…
The Cambridge companion to postcolonial literary studies
The South African Ideology
Representations of the Intellectual in Representations of the Intellectual
In this essay, I offer a reading of Edward W. Said's intellectual politics and of his understanding of intellectualism. I begin by discussing the debate over the status and value of Said's most celebrated and influential book, Orientalism, situating this debate in the context both of the reassertion of imperial dominance that began in the 1970s and is still very much in train and—within the academy—of the rise of postcolonial studies. Said's poli…
Representation and terror in V.Y. Mudimbe
In the field of Postcolonial Studies, no debate today is more consequential or vexed, than that concerning representation. The questions: Who speaks? Of and for whom? How, where, and to what ends? In which languages? Through means of which concepts and categories? On the basis of which problematics and epistemological assumptions? – are all central to contemporary scholarship in the field. Generally speaking, the question of representation has be…
Frantz Fanon
Penser le postcolonial. Une introduction critique
Chapter Seventeen. Marxism and postcolonial studies
This chapter traces the career of postcolonial studies as an academic field of enquiry and examines its founding principles by periodising it within the key global economic and social transformations since 1945. It looks at and assesses some of the central debates within postcolonial studies the critique of Eurocentrism; nationalism; subalternity; the positing of an alternative modernity; and the retreat from politics to ethics. Throughout the po…
The pitch of the world
Part of Chris Searle's wide-ranging contribution to Race & Class - and the subject of this article - is a body of cricket writing that exposes the crippling imperial legacies of the game but still insists on its potential for the future, particularly in England; a future Searle understands as emerging from the country's working-class, multi-ethnic, inner-city communities. Searle is indebted to C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary (1963) and, like J…
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