The Routledge Companion Literature and the Global South offers a comprehensive overview of the field at a key moment in its developmenta 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 globalizations 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.
The Routledge Companion Literature and the Global South is an invaluable resource for anyone studying and researching global South studies and literature, as well as 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
1 Fanon: A Theatre of Embodiment
Jean Khalfa and Felicity Bromley-Hall
2 Solidaritys Temporalities
Adhira Mangalagiri
3 From the South Out: Neoliberalism, Horizontality, and the Post-Global
Subject in Mohsin Hamids 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. Sįnchez Prado
PART II
Approaches: Methods and Methodologies
9 Global South Literatures as New Materialisms: Ecologies, Objects, and
Ontologies
Carlos M. Amador
10 Historicizing Rabindranaths 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 Zermeńo 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 Durćo
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 HumanNonhuman Intra-Action in Kendel Hippolytes Ecopoetry
Yvonne Liebermann
20 Epeli Hauofa: Sly Naivety in Tales of the Tikongs
Sudesh Mishra
21 Amphibious Poetics on the Malabar Coast: Kappappu and the Chronotope of
the Ship in Mappila Literary Culture
A.K. Muneer
22 The Guantįnamo 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 Rodrķguez
24 We Must Be a Third Principle: Midnights Children and the Non-Aligned
Movement
Yanping Zhang
Index
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 Martķ: A Revolutionary Life (University of Texas Press, 2014) and A Posthumous History of José Martķ: 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.
