FORUM: Chauvinism, Indian Literature, World Literature
Themes include alternative and 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 |
FORUM: World Literature and Globalectics
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 |
Global South Critical Concepts Volume
We are collaborating with Cambridge University Press and the University of Tübingen's initiative, Literary Cultures of the Global South, on a new volume of essays edited by Russell West-Pavlov. Read more |
 Artwork by Toni Pressley-Sanon
We participated in a roundtable, The Global South and the Limits of Postcolonialism, at the Global South Colloquium (November 16-19, 2016), which is a part of the amazing new initiative on the Global South at the University of Virginia.
We are currently collaborating with the Modern Language Association's Global South Forum as Duncan M. Yoon will begin serving a three-year term in January, 2017 as representative to the delegate assembly. Also, be on the look out for an American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2017 panel co-sponsored by the MLA Global South Forum and the GSP-Cornell! |
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