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The Global South and Literature

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Global South and Literature
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Russell West-Pavlov
SeriesCambridge Critical Concepts
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:278
Dimensions(mm): Height 245,Width 160
Category/GenreLiterary theory
Literary studies - general
Literary reference works
ISBN/Barcode 9781108415262
ClassificationsDewey:809.933553
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Tables, black and white; 11 Halftones, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 8 March 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The 'Global South' has largely supplanted the 'Third World' in discussions of development studies, postcolonial studies, world literature and comparative literature respectively. The concept registers a new set of relationships between nations of the once colonized world as their connections to nations of the North diminish in significance. Such relationships register particularly clearly in contemporary cultural theory and literary production. The Global South and Literature explores the historical, cultural and literary applications of the term for twenty-first-century flows of transnational cultural influence, tracing their manifestations across the Global Southern traditions of Africa, Asia and Latin America. This collection of interdisciplinary contributions examines the origins, development and applications of this emergent term, employed at the nexus of the critical social sciences and developments in literary humanities and cultural studies. This book will be a key resource for students, graduates and researchers working in the field of postcolonial studies and world literature.

Author Biography

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