FORUM: Chauvinism, Indian Literature, World Literature
The essays on this forum address themes including alternative, non-Western forms of modernity, literary criticism and cultural chauvinism, the idea of “world literature,” and the relative status of oral vs. written cultures. Read more

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FORUM: World Literature and Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing
How does a globalectic imagination challenge the ways we write, receive, and read world literature? This forum consists of a series of essays in conversation with Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing. Read more

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PARTICIPATE IN THE NEXT FORUM
The third forum will be on Global Blackness. In this forum we invite writers, scholars, and political activists in the global south to contribute essays on blackness in their respective societies. Deadline and details to be announced soon.

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FEATURED ESSAYS (FULL LIST BELOW)

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Rethinking the Global South by Mukoma Wa Ngugi

From Indian Literature to World Literature: A Conversation with Satya P. Mohanty

Asia in My Life by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

The Global South and Cultural Struggles: On the Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization

A Globalectical Imagination by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

World Literature and the Postcolonial: Ngugi’s Globalectics and Glissant’s Poetics by Duncan McEachern Yoon

“You Are the Prisoner, the Discoverer, the Founder, the Liberator”

Globalectics Beyond Postcoloniality by Carole Boyce Davies

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ALL THE ESSAYS FROM FORUM 1

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• Rethinking the Global South
• From Indian Literature to World Literature: A Conversation with Satya P. Mohanty
• Asia in My Life
• The Global South and Cultural Struggles: On the Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization
• The Fault Lines of Hindi and Urdu
• Reframing Colonialism and Modernity: An Endeavour through Sociology and Literature
• Varieties of Cultural Chauvinism and the Relevance of Comparative Studies
• Literature to Combat Cultural Chauvinism: A Response
• Is There an Indian Way of Thinking about Comparative Literature?
• Modernity and Public Sphere in Vernacular
• West Indian Writers and Cultural Chauvinism
• Oral Knowledge in Berber Women’s Expressions of the Sacred

  

ALL THE ESSAYS FROM FORUM 2

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• Break out of the Prison House of Hierarchy!
• A Globalectical Imagination
• World Literature and the Postcolonial: Ngugi’s Globalectics and Glissant’s Poetics
• “You Are the Prisoner, the Discoverer, the Founder, the Liberator”: Contextualizing Decolonial Paths of Afro-Hispanic Literature in Latin America, Equatorial Guinea and Spain
• Globalectics Beyond Postcoloniality