Global South Literary Studies

Our first Special Issue “Oceanic Fictions in Indian Languages and Beyond” will track “how different communities have interacted with the ocean and its role in shaping civilizational moorings and material cultures”. Submit your proposals at the link below!

Want to submit a proposal for our first special issue, "Oceanic Fictions in Indian Languages and Beyond"? Looking for inspiration? Check out this fantastic project from 2023 led by Professor Isabel Hofmeyr!

www.oceanichumanities.com

Our first special issue, "Oceanic Fictions in Indian Languages and Beyond," invites submissions which shift attention away from "territorial and terrestrial frames to the fluvial spaces of the ocean", making a "decolonial foray into the critical praxes" of the Global South.
Read the CfP and submit:

An excellent project uncovering the beautiful, but sadly endangered architecture of South Asia

Rebuilding After Conflict: Highlights from BISA 2025 - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB Celestina Atom reflects on BISA 2025, sharing insights on reintegration in Nigeria and lessons from Belfast’s history of conflict and peace.

🕊️ On this #InternationalDayOfPeace, we’re re-sharing Celestina Atom's blog on peacebuilding after conflict, drawn from @mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2025 Conference.

This year’s theme reminds us how peace requires collaboration across divides.

Read here 🔽

Member of our editorial board, @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social's forthcoming book Southern Imagining reorients our view of the world, offering "an alternative perspective, using literary, scientific and cultural material to explore how we look at the world from the south."

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We are open for submissions, but also to your suggestions! Do you have an idea for a special issue related to Global South Literary Studies? Is there an author, theorist, or translator who you think should be interviewed, a book that begs reviewing? Send us your pitch at the link below.

Global South Literary Studies Publishes work examining the literary and cultural expressions that respond to and emerge from the Global South.

GSLS's scope encompasses past, present, and emerging narratives through the lens of literary and theoretical analysis across varied formats including fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, graphic novels & comics, oral histories and other non-traditional forms of expression. Open for submissions!

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The Journal of Global South Literary Studies is open for submissions and proposals! We do not prescribe to geographical, superficial or limiting definitions of ‘Global South’, and encourage our authors to consider contrasts as well as connections to reflect its polyphonic reality.

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We are thrilled to announce Routledge’s newest quarterly journal: Global South Literary Studies. Dedicated to examining the literary and cultural expressions that respond to and emerge from the Global South, we aim to advance understanding of the area's diverse realities. Now open for submission!

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Delighted to announce the launch of a new journal from @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social: Global South Literary Studies 🎉 Editor-in-Chief: Goutam Karmakar. Learn more, sign up for new content alerts & consider submitting at www.tandfonline.com/rgsl 🎉