The Global South and Literature
Cambridge Critical Concepts Series

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.

1. Towards the Global South: concept or chimera, paradigm or panacea? Russell West-Pavlov; Part I. Origins: 2. Bandung nostalgia and the Global South Duncan M. Yoon; 3. Thinking about the Global South: affinity and knowledge Dilip M. Menon; 4. The Global South: modernity and exceptionality Sudesh Mishra; 5. Latin America, uneven development, political economy and the Global South Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado; Part II. Developments: 6. The Cold War and the (Global) South Atlantic Kerry Bystrom; 7. Critical theory: made in Brazil Fabio Akcelrud Durão; 8. Anxieties of influence and origin in the black Atlantic John Drabinski; 9. Sugar and the Global South: substance of new Solidarities Nadja Gernalzick; Part III. Applications: 10. Inoperable relations and urban change in the Global South Abdoumaliq Simone; 11. Biopolitics and the potentia of literature Andrew McCann; 12. Extractive industries in the Global South: development, necropolitics, globalization and planetary ethics Russell West-Pavlov; 13. Muslim migrants and the Global South Tabish Khair; 14. Love's labours lost in the Global South Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario; 15. Queering the Global South: Mu Cao and his poetry Hongwei Bao; 16. Uneasy returns: the literary turn to the South Pashmina Murthy; 17. Political theology, literature and the Global South Simon During; 18. Genres of the Global South: the picaresque Jens Elze; 19. South of the graphics: Gandhi, Mandela and telling lives Pramod Nayar; 20. Literary theory, Salman Rushdie and the Global South Vijay Mishra; 21. Medievalism on country Jenna Mead; 22. Against the Global South Isabel Hofmeyr.

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