The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South

ISBN-13: 9781032075464 / Angielski

Alfred J. López; Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

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The Routledge Companion Literature and the Global South offers a comprehensive overview of the field at a key moment in its development—a snapshot of where Global South literary studies stands in its second decade. As the aftermath of a string of global cataclysms since the rise of neoliberal globalization has demonstrated, it is the poor, the disenfranchised, and the marginalized who consistently bear the brunt of the suffering. What defines the Global South is the recognition across the world that globalization’s promised bounties have not materialized. It has failed as a global master narrative. Global South studies centers on three general areas: globalization, its aftermath/failure, and how those on the economic bottom survive it.

Organized into three sections, this volume consists of original essays by 25 contributors from around the world. Part one focuses on the origins and objects of Global South studies, and how this field has come to define and historicize its organizing concept. Part two considers subsequent critical developments in Global South studies, particularly those that embrace interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. Part three features case studies which highlight a range of applications and interventions. The contributors critique the boundaries and definitions explored in the earlier sections, and push ‘settled’ literatures or methods into new analytical spaces.

This innovative collection is an invaluable resource for anyone studying and researching global South studies and literature, but also those interested in world literature, contemporary literature, postcolonialism, decolonizing the curriculum, critical race studies, gender studies, and politics.

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List of Contributors

 

Introduction: Cardinal Points and “Hilly Sand”

Alfred J. López and Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

 

PART I

Intentions: Geographies, Epistemologies, Subjects

1 Fanon: A Theatre of Embodiment

Jean Khalfa and Felicity Bromley-Hall

2 Solidarity’s Temporalities

Adhira Mangalagiri

3 From the South Out: Neoliberalism, Horizontality, and the Post-Global Subject in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Juan Meneses

4 Deep Souths: The U.S. South and the Global South

Pashmina Murthy

5 Situating Energy Humanities in India: Labor and Gender in Narratives of Energy Systems

Swaralipi Nandi

6 Queer/Cuir in the Global South?: Latin-American Dissidence and Gendersex Non-Conformity

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

7 Resonances of Race in the Global South and the Decolonial Turn

Juan G. Ramos

8 Colonial Traces: The Specter of the Global South in Contemporary Cinema

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

 

PART II

Approaches: Methods and Methodologies

9 Global South Literatures as New Materialisms: Ecologies, Objects, and Ontologies

Carlos M. Amador

10 Historicizing Rabindranath’s Reception in Argentina

Nilanjana Bhattacharya

11 Slave Literacy, Creolization, and Muslim Formation in Colonial Jamaica

Ahmed Idrissi Alami

12 The Southern Submarine: Storying the Deep Indian Ocean

Charne Lavery

13 Contested Histories: Indian Cinema in the Global South and Beyond

Parichay Patra

14 Between Lettered and Popular Cultures: A Cultural History Perspective

Guillermo Zermeño and translated by Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

 

PART III

Case Studies: Examples and Exceptions

15 The Computer and the Subject: Computing Extractivism in Global South Literatures

Amrita De

16 Carolina Maria de Jesus: Four Movements of the Favela and Literature

Fabio Akcelrud Durão

17 Poetry of the Indian Avant-Garde, An Intransigent Aesthetics

Brinda Bose

18 The Sociological Imagination of Dr. Jose Rizal

Teresita Cruz del Rosario

19 Human–Nonhuman Intra-Action in Kendel Hippolyte’s Ecopoetry

Yvonne Liebermann

20 Epeli Hau’ofa: Sly Naivety in Tales of the Tikongs

Sudesh Mishra

21 Amphibious Poetics on the Malabar Coast: Kappappāṭṭu and the Chronotope of the Ship in Mappila Literary Culture

A.K. Muneer

22 The Guantánamo Graphic Novels: Towards a Carceral Imperialism

Pramod K. Nayar

23 Exploring Digital Archives: Vieques on the Internet and Yabureibo in the Global South

Juan Carlos Rodríguez

24 “We Must Be a Third Principle”: Midnight’s Children and the Non-Aligned Movement

Yanping Zhang

Index

O autorze

Alfred J. López is Professor and Head of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Director of Global Studies, and Director of Latin American and Latino Studies at Purdue University, Indiana. His publications include José Martí: A Revolutionary Life (University of Texas Press, 2014) and A Posthumous History of José Martí: The Apostle and his Afterlife (Routledge, 2023). López was also the founding editor of The Global South (Indiana University Press, 2007- ), the leading journal of globalization and Global South studies.

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo is Assistant Professor of English at Rhode Island College. He is the author of Children of Globalization: Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States (Routledge, 2021). His essays have appeared in Literary Geographies, Norteamérica, The North Meridian Review, and Chasqui, and in several edited volumes.