Global South and Literature

The Global South and Literature explores the history, meanings, cultural and literary applications of the notion of the 'Global South.'

List of contents

1. Towards the Global South: concept or chimera, paradigm or panacea? Russell West-Pavlov; Part I. Origins: 2. Bandung nostalgia and the Global South Duncan M. Yoon; 3. Thinking about the Global South: affinity and knowledge Dilip M. Menon; 4. The Global South: modernity and exceptionality Sudesh Mishra; 5. Latin America, uneven development, political economy and the Global South Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado; Part II. Developments: 6. The Cold War and the (Global) South Atlantic Kerry Bystrom; 7. Critical theory: made in Brazil Fabio Akcelrud Durão; 8. Anxieties of influence and origin in the black Atlantic John Drabinski; 9. Sugar and the Global South: substance of new Solidarities Nadja Gernalzick; Part III. Applications: 10. Inoperable relations and urban change in the Global South Abdoumaliq Simone; 11. Biopolitics and the potentia of literature Andrew McCann; 12. Extractive industries in the Global South: development, necropolitics, globalization and planetary ethics Russell West-Pavlov; 13. Muslim migrants and the Global South Tabish Khair; 14. Love's labours lost in the Global South Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario; 15. Queering the Global South: Mu Cao and his poetry Hongwei Bao; 16. Uneasy returns: the literary turn to the South Pashmina Murthy; 17. Political theology, literature and the Global South Simon During; 18. Genres of the Global South: the picaresque Jens Elze; 19. South of the graphics: Gandhi, Mandela and telling lives Pramod Nayar; 20. Literary theory, Salman Rushdie and the Global South Vijay Mishra; 21. Medievalism on country Jenna Mead; 22. Against the Global South Isabel Hofmeyr.

About the author

Russell West-Pavlov is Professor of Anglophone Literatures at the University of Tübingen and a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria.

Summary

The Global South and Literature explores the historical, cultural and literary applications of the term applied to twenty-first-century flows of transnational cultural influence, tracing their manifestations across the Global Southern traditions of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY RUSSELL WE, Russell (Eberhard-Karls-Universitat T West-Pavlov, Russell (Professor of Anglophone Lite West-Pavlov
• Assisted by: Russell West-Pavlov (Editor), Russell (Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen West-Pavlov (Editor), Russell (Professor of Anglophone Literatures University of Tubingen) West-Pavlov (Editor), Russell (Professor of Anglophone Literatures University of Tubingen/Research Associate University of Pretoria) West-Pavlov (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781108415262
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41526-2
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Cambridge Critical Concepts; Cambridge Critical Concepts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary reference works