1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South

Edited By Alfred J. López, Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo Copyright 2023
320 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.