Hosam Aboul-Ela provides a startlingly original perspective on Faulkner, examining his work in the transnational context of the Global South: the geopolitical and economic dynamics of the post-Reconstruction period that link the American South to the larger colonial tradition."Other South" thus raises new questions as to the scope and attitude of Faulkner's project, positioning Faulkner's work as an inherent critique of colonialism and emphasizing a more specific conceptualization of coloniality.
Engaging with ideas and thinkers from the former colonies, Aboul-Ela draws on an...

Through theoretical, philosophical, cultural, political, and historical analysis, Horacio Legras views the myriad factors that have both formed and stifled the integration of peripheral experiences into Latin American literature. Despite these barriers, Legras reveals a handful of contemporary authors who have attempted in earnest to present marginalized voices to the Western world. His deep and insightful analysis of key works by novelists Juan Jose Saer "(The Witness), " Nellie Campobello "(Cartucho), " Roa Bastos "(Son of Man), " and Jose Maria Arguedas "(The Fox from Up Above and the Fox...