Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language
question was one of the great, intractable problems that haunted postcolonial literatures in …

Literature and the World presents a broad and multifaceted introduction to world literature
and globalization. The book provides a brief background and history of the field followed by …

This introductory article to the special issue takes stock of the scholarly impact of the last
fifteen years of Global South studies scholarship in the field of literary and cultural studies …

This article builds on Joseph Slaughter's call at the 2017 American Comparative Literature
Meeting to be more aware of the “locations of comparison” that scholars of literature inhabit …

This book makes the case that the idea of a" world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is
not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War and in the wake of …

INTRODUCTION over the years may have leaned one way or the other–toward South Africa
or the US–the journal has always striven for content that resonates transnationally. In recent …

I'm extremely grateful to African Studies Review for soliciting this generative discussion of
my book and to all the thoughtful and generous readings of my interlocutors. It is hard to …

On the tercentenary of William Shakespeare's death in 1916, Oxford University Press
published a lavish volume entitled A Book of Homage to Shakespeare. Comprising more …

Over the last decade, scholarship worldwide has been attempting to assess the memory of
the alleged 1989 failure of the leftist revolution and decolonization. As early as 1966, when …

This collection is a study of the meaning of political hope in dark times. Political hope has
been a staple of political theory, from antiquity to modernity. From Plato's narrative in the …