Neil Lazarus, FBA (born 1953) is an American literary scholar who specialises in

postcolonial literature Postcolonial literature is the literature by people from formerly colonized countries, originating from all continents except Antarctica. Postcolonial literature often addresses the problems and consequences of the colonization and subsequent deco ...

and

postcolonial theory Postcolonialism (also post-colonial theory) is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic consequences of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and th ...

. He was professor of English and comparative literary studies at the

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from 1999 to 2020. He was elected a

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in 2014."Professor Neil Lazarus FBA"
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Publications

* ''Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction'' (New Haven, CT:

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, 1990) * ''Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World'' (Cambridge:

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, 1999) * (editor, with Crystal Bartolovich) ''Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies'' (Cambridge:

, 2002) * (editor) ''Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies'' (Cambridge:

, 2004). * ''The Postcolonial Unconscious'' (Cambridge:

, 2011) * ''Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature'' (Liverpool:

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, 2015)

References

Living people 1953 births Literary critics University of the Witwatersrand alumni Alumni of the University of Essex Alumni of Keele University Academics of the University of Warwick Fellows of the British Academy {{US-academic-bio-stub