The Global South and Literature (Cambridge Critical Concepts) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108415261 ISBN 13: 9781108415262

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

The Global South and Literature explores the historical, cultural and literary applications of the term applied to twenty-first-century flows of transnational cultural influence, tracing their manifestations across the Global Southern traditions of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1108415261
• ISBN 13: 9781108415262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 278
• Editor: West-Pavlov Russell