The Rise of the ‘Global South’ The ‘Global South‘ and ‘Global North‘ are increasingly popular terms used to categorize the countries of the world. J. Daniel Elam teaches world literature and diaspora studies at the University of Toronto. 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. 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. “Settlement Fictions: Global South Literature and the Postcolonial Urban Imaginary” examines the recent crises of underdevelopment and overurbanization in the global South through the lens of the contemporary postcolonial novel. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Under the umbrella of the Global South, Sinophone literature goes beyond the limited scope of Chinese national literature and thus facilitates its connection with the minor or peripheral literature around the world. The Global South concentrates on the literature and cultures of those parts of the world that have experienced the most political, social, and economic upheaval and have suffered the brunt of the greatest challengs facing the world under globalization: poverty, displacement and diaspora, environmental degradation, human and civil rights abuses, war, hunger, and disease. The 'Global South' has largely supplanted the 'Third World' in discussions of development studies, postcolonial studies, world literature and comparative literature respectively. The Global South and Literature book. He is the editor, with Kama Maclean and Chris Moffat, of two volumes on revolutionary anticolonial thought in South Asia. The 'Global South' has largely supplanted the 'Third World' in discussions of development studies, postcolonial studies, world literature and comparative literature respectively. Roanne Kantor is an Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University.Her research focuses on contemporary writing from the Global South written in English, Spanish, Hindi, and Urdu. His essays have been published in PMLA, Interventions, and Postcolonial Studies, as well as the Los Angeles Review of Books and Public Books. When I began this study in 2008, it was already clear that Mereilles’s slum-historicizing film and Davis’s The divide between ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’ is broadly considered an economic, social and political division. Last updated on November 11, 2018 . Skip to main content Accessibility help We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. The study of the literary cultures of the Global South ‘swivels’ the axis of literary interrelations from the colonizer–colonized interface which, for instance, has preoccupied postcolonial literary studies since its inception (and which inevitably informed the ‘national’ compartmentalization of … The Global South and Literature - edited by Russell West-Pavlov March 2018. 21-24). Close this message to accept … In modern political literature, ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’ classifications are usually attributed by the Human Development Index (HDI), which are published by the United Nations (UNDP 2005, pp. The Global South concentrates on the literature and cultures of those parts of the world that have experienced the most political, social, and economic upheaval and have suffered the brunt of the greatest challengs facing the world under globalization: poverty, displacement and diaspora, environmental degradation, human and civil rights abuses, war, hunger, and disease.