# Neil Lazarus

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'''Neil Lazarus''', [FBA](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy) (born 1953) is a British literary scholar (born in South Africa) who specialises in [postcolonial literature](/source/postcolonial_literature) and [postcolonial theory](/source/postcolonial_theory). He was professor of English and comparative literary studies at the [University of Warwick](/source/University_of_Warwick) from 1999 to 2020.<ref>[https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-282254 "Lazarus, Prof. Neil"], ''[Who's Who](/source/Who's_Who_(UK))'' (onlne ed., [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 2023). Retrieved 2 February 2024.</ref><ref>[https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/people/lazarusprofneil/ "Professor Neil Lazarus"], ''[University of Warwick](/source/University_of_Warwick)''. Retrieved 2 February 2024.</ref><ref>[https://bll01.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=creator,equals,Lazarus,%20Neil,AND&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=Not_BL_Suppress&vid=44BL_INST:BLL01&facet=creator,include,Lazarus,%20Neil&lang=en&mode=advanced&offset=0 "Lazarus, Neil"], ''British Library Catalogue''. Retrieved 2 February 2024.</ref> He was elected a [fellow of the British Academy](/source/fellow_of_the_British_Academy) in 2014.<ref>[https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/neil-lazarus-FBA/ "Professor Neil Lazarus FBA"], ''British Academy''. Retrieved 1 February 2024.</ref>

== Publications ==
* ''Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction'' (New Haven, CT: [Yale University Press](/source/Yale_University_Press), 1990)
* ''Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World'' (Cambridge: [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press), 1999)
* (editor, with Crystal Bartolovich) ''Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies'' (Cambridge: [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press), 2002)
* (editor) ''Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies'' (Cambridge: [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press), 2004).
* ''The Postcolonial Unconscious'' (Cambridge: [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press), 2011)
* ''Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature'' (Liverpool: [Liverpool University Press](/source/Liverpool_University_Press), 2015)

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