Towards a Literary Criticism of the Global South

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  • Fernanda Dusse Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.3.151-168

Keywords:

global South, humanities, comparative literature, cooperation

Abstract

South-South cooperation has oriented the political project of center-leftist parties during the first years of this millennium as it is based on diversity and dialogues among nations. Founded by these transnational political actions, the global South is able to escape the totality of the State and the abandonment of neoliberalism, thus it has been embraced by many contemporary theorists as a project of an alternative future. This essay presents the concept of the global South and debates upon its capacity to change the world’s geography. The geopolitical practices are then brought closer to trends in contemporary literary criticism in order to suggest new paths for the fields of theory of literature and comparative literature. Therefore, the essay aims to fill the blank left by Brazilian universities, as they seemed uninterested in following the movements conducted by political leaders in the first decade of this century.

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Author Biography

Fernanda Dusse, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais

Professora do CEFET-MG no departamento de Linguagem e Tecnologia. Doutora em Estudos Literários pela UFMG, com período sanduíche na Harvard University e na University of Cape Town.

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Published

2019-09-30

How to Cite

Dusse, F. (2019). Towards a Literary Criticism of the Global South. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 29(3), 151–168. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.3.151-168

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 3 (2019): Teoria e Crítica Literária no Tempo Presente

Section

Dossier Literary theory and criticism in presente time

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