This wide-ranging study includes extended discussions of Frantz Fanon, C. L. R. James, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Samir Amin, Raymond Williams, Paul Gilroy and Partha Chatterjee. Neil Lazarus's book offers a politically focused, materialist intervention into postcolonial and cultural studies, and constitutes a major reappraisal of politics and culture in these fields.