The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South (Routledge Literature Companions)

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. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Contributors Introduction: Cardinal Points and “Hilly Sand” Part I Intentions: Geographies, Epistemologies, Subjects Chapter 1 Fanon: A Theatre of Embodiment Chapter 2 Solidarity’s Temporalities Chapter 3 From the South Out: Neoliberalism, Horizontality, and the Post-Global Subject in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Chapter 4 Deep Souths: The U.S. South and the Global South Chapter 5 Situating Energy Humanities in India: Labor and Gender in Narratives of Energy Systems Chapter 6 Queer/Cuir in the Global South?: Latin-American Dissidence and Gendersex Non-Conformity Chapter 7 Resonances of Race in the Global South and the Decolonial Turn Chapter 8 Colonial Traces: The Specter of the Global South in Contemporary Cinema Part II Approaches: Methods and Methodologies Chapter 9 Global South Literatures as New Materialisms: Ecologies, Objects, and Ontologies Chapter 10 Historicizing Rabindranath’s Reception in Argentina Chapter 11 Slave Literacy, Creolization, and Muslim Formation in Colonial Jamaica Chapter 12 The Southern Submarine: Storying the Deep Indian Ocean Chapter 13 Contested Histories: Indian Cinema in the Global South and Beyond Chapter 14 Between Lettered and Popular Cultures: A Cultural History Perspective Part III Case Studies: Examples and Exceptions Chapter 15 The Computer and the Subject: Computing Extractivism in Global South Literatures Chapter 16 Carolina Maria de Jesus: Four Movements of the Favela and Literature Chapter 17 Poetry of the Indian Avant-Garde, An Intransigent Aesthetics Chapter 18 The Sociological Imagination of Dr. Jose Rizal Chapter 19 Human–Nonhuman Intra-Action in Kendel Hippolyte’s Ecopoetry Chapter 20 Epeli Hau’ofa: Sly Naïvety in Tales of the Tikongs Chapter 21 Amphibious Poetics on the Malabar Coast: Kappappāṭṭu and the Chronotope of the Ship in Mappila Literary Culture Chapter 22 The Guantánamo Graphic Novels: Towards a Carceral Imperialism Chapter 23 Exploring Digital Archives: Vieques on the Internet and Yabureibo in the Global South Chapter 24 “We Must Be a Third Principle”: Midnight’s Children and the Non-Aligned Movement Index