Centre for Modern Studies
Spectres Haunting ... Postcommunism and Postcolonialism
Wednesday 19 October 2011, 5.30PM
Speaker(s): Professor Neil Lazarus, University of Warwick
Professor Lazarus is a leading figure in Postcolonial Studies, and has written and edited field defining works, including:
Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (Yale, 1990)
Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (Yale, 1990)
Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World (CUP, 1999)
Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (CUP, 2002)
Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (CUP, 2004).
His most recent monograph is entitled The Postcolonial Unconscious and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.
This is an event not to be missed for anyone interested in debates about postcolonialism, world literature and/or world politics.
The lecture will be preceded by a wine reception at 5.15pm, to which all are warmly invited.
Location: Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building
Admission: All welcome, admission free
Email: claire.westall@york.ac.uk