1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South
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 parts, this volume consists of original essays by 25 contributors from around the world. Part I focuses on the origins and objects of Global South studies, and how this field has come to define and historicize its organizing concept. Part II considers subsequent critical developments in Global South studies, particularly those that embrace interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. Part III features case studies which highlight a range of applications and interventions. The contributors critique the boundaries and definitions explored in the earlier parts 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.
List of Contributors
Introduction: Cardinal Points and "Hilly Sand"
Alfred J. López and Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
Part I – Intentions: Geographies, Epistemologies, Subjects
Chapter 1 – Fanon: A Theatre of Embodiment
Felicity Bromley-Hall and Jean Khalfa
Chapter 2 – The Universal Convulsion: Norths, Souths and the Global Cold War in Asia Jini Kim Watson
Chapter 3 – Solidarity’s Temporalities
Adhira Mangalagiri
Chapter 4 – 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
Chapter 5 – Deep Souths: The U.S. South and the Global South
Pashmina Murthy
Chapter 6 – Situating Energy Humanities in India: Labour and Gender in Narratives of Energy Systems
Swaralipi Nandi
Chapter 7 – Queer/Cuir in the Global South? Latin-American Dissidence and Gendersex Non-Conformity
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
Chapter 8 – Resonances of Race in the Global South and the Decolonial Turn
Juan G. Ramos
Chapter 9 – Colonial Traces: The Specter of the Global South in Contemporary Cinema
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Part II – Approaches: Methods and Methodologies
Chapter 10 – Global South Literatures as New Materialisms: Ecologies, Objects, and Ontologies
Carlos M. Amador
Chapter 11 – Historicizing Rabindranath’s Reception in Argentina
Nilanjana Bhattacharya
Chapter 12 – Slave Literacy, Creolization and Muslim Formation in Colonial Jamaica
Ahmed Idrissi Alami
Chapter 13 – Submerging the South: Storying the Deep Indian Ocean
Charne Lavery
Chapter 14 – Contested Histories: Indian Cinema in the Global South and Beyond
Parichay Patra
Chapter 15 – Between Lettered and Popular Cultures: A Cultural History Perspective
Guillermo Zermeño (translated by Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo)
Part III - Case Studies: Examples and Exceptions
Chapter 16 – The Computer and the Subject: Computing Extractivism in Global South Literatures
Amrita De
Chapter 17 – Carolina Maria de Jesus: Four Movements of the Favela and Literature
Fabio Akcelrud Durão
Chapter 18 – Poetry of the Indian Avant-Garde, An Intransigent Aesthetics
Brinda Bose
Chapter 19 – The Sociological Imagination of Dr. Jose Rizal
Teresita Cruz del Rosario
Chapter 20 – Human-Nonhuman intra-action in Kendel Hippolyte’s Ecopoetry
Yvonne Liebermann
Chapter 21 – Epeli Hau’ofa: Sly Naivety in Tales of the Tikongs
Sudesh Mishra
Chapter 22 – Amphibious Poetics on the Malabar Coast: Kappappāṭṭu and the Chronotope of the Ship in Mappila Literary Culture
A. K. Muneer
Chapter 23 – The Guantánamo Graphic Novels: Towards a Carceral Imperialism
Pramod K. Nayar
Chapter 24 – Exploring Digital Archives: Vieques on the Internet and Yabureibo in the Global South
Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Chapter 25 – ‘We Must Be a Third Principle:’ Midnight’s Children and the Non-Aligned Movement
Yanping Zhang
Index
Biography
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.
