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Global South Literary Studies (GSLS) is dedicated to examining the literary and cultural expressions that respond to and emerge from the Global South. To submit an article, review, or interview go to: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgsl20

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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Open Access Publication in Global South Literary Studies! Read this discussion titled “Enhancing Conceptual Understanding in Pathology: Using Multimedia to Anchor Foundational Grasp in South African Higher Education,” by Dianna Moodley and Colette Kell, for free here: doi.org/10.1080/3068...
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Enhancing conceptual understanding in pathology: using multimedia to anchor foundational grasp in South African higher education
Studying in the Health Sciences is often characterised by rote learning because of traditional, theory-heavy concepts. This poses challenges with memorisation without understanding, which prevents ...
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New Publication Alert: Delighted to share our latest publication: "Transmission and Narratology of Ramayana: An Interview with John Brockington" by Govind S and Prof. Smita Jha Read here: doi.org/10.1080/3068...
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Transmission and narratology of Ramayana: an interview with John Brockington
This interview discusses the transmission and narratology of the Ramayana. John Brockington explores the epic with substantiated insights and observations, revealing essential aspects of the Ramaya...
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Special Issue Call for Papers!!! Global South Literary Studies (Routledge) The call is here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New Publication Alert Global South Literary Studies is pleased to publish the article “Towards a decolonial re-reading of Hari Mohan Jha’s critical afterlife: caste, silence, and colonial modernity” by Sankat Mochan Jha. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/3068...
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Towards a decolonial re-reading of Hari Mohan Jha’s critical afterlife: caste, silence, and colonial modernity
This article problematises the institutional and largely uncritical positioning of Hari Mohan Jha as a representative of liberal modernity within postcolonial scholarship on bhasha literatures. Thi...
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Publication Alert!!! "Rethinking Masculinity: Stay-at-Home Fatherhood in Zukiswa Wanner’s Men of the South" By Mukoi Musagasa Read here: doi.org/10.1080/3068...
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Rethinking masculinity: stay-at-home fatherhood in Zukiswa Wanner’s Men of the South
Zukiswa Wanner’s novel, Men of the South (2010), endeavours to confront the controversies of middle-class Black masculinities in post-apartheid South Africa. The interplay of progressiveness, heter...
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
New Research Article in Global South Literary Studies "Reproductive Ledgers and Broken Conversions: Corruption, Colonial Modernity, and the Crisis of Valuation in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru" by Azzeddine Tajjiou Read the article here: doi.org/10.1080/3068...
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Reproductive ledgers and broken conversions: corruption, colonial modernity, and the crisis of valuation in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru
Flora Nwapa’s Efuru (1966) frames corruption not only as a failure of governance but as a failure of recognition, a systematic distortion of value in the intimate spaces of household and community ...
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Job Alert: Associate Editor Deadline: 05 May 2026 If you hold a PhD in Literature, with a focus on Global South Studies and/or Postcolonial Studies, along with post-PhD editorial experience, we would love to hear from you. Apply: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
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Associate Editors needed for Global South Literary Studies
Associate Editors needed for Global South Literary Studies
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Publication Alert! Article title: “Surveilled bodies, governed lives: a Foucauldian reading of surveillance, power, and subjectivity in The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story” by Aditi Sharma & Nupur Tandon. Read Here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Surveilled bodies, governed lives: a Foucauldian reading of surveillance, power, and subjectivity in A. Revathi’s the Truth about me: a Hijra life story
This article examines A. Revathi’s The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story (2010) as an articulation of how power, surveillance, and the gendered gaze operate to regulate gender and sexuality. Engag...
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Publication Alert! Global South Literary Studies has published a new article titled: “Negotiating patriarchy, agency, and secrecy in The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives” by Gabriel Kosiso Okonkwo. Read the article: doi.org/10.1080/3068...
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Negotiating patriarchy, agency, and secrecy in Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
This article examines Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives drawing on feminist theories of secrecy and Global South conceptions of agency to advance weaponised surreption as a crit...
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
ALERT! Associate Editors for Global South Literary Studies (GSLS)!! Global South Literary Studies is currently recruiting associate editors. Deadline: 05 May 2026 For eligibility and application process check: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Special Issue: Frames, Terrains, and Worldings: Comics and Storytelling across the Global South Abstract Deadline: 15 July 2026 Manuscript Deadline: 31 December 2026 Learn more: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Frames, Terrains, and Worldings: Comics and Storytelling across the Global South
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Inviting submissions for our General Issues. We welcome original research articles on Caribbean, African, and Latin American literatures. Contributions engaging with diverse theoretical, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgs...
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Global South Literary Studies
Publishes work examining the literary and cultural expressions that respond to and emerge from the Global South.
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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I just came across @globalsouthls.bsky.social and you should check it out if you work on the global south and (world) literature!
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Nalini Iyer @niyerseattle.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Please consider submitting to this CFP think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Global South Literature in and out of South Asia
Explore South Asia as the subject of a new type of cultural internationalism.
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Coherent Digital @coherentdigital.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Just launched: Pan-African Magazines—a digital archive of rare, regionally distinct African magazines that shaped popular culture and political thought 1954-1991. Produced in partnership with Drum Archive and digitized entirely in Africa by Africa Media Online. coherentdigital.net/products/afr...
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Blue Humanities, the subject of our first special issues, is a deeply intersectional field. Check out these inspiring projects from Oceanic Humanities for the Global South, a research institute which combines creative practice with scientific research. www.oceanichumanities.com/projects
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Projects | Oceanic Humanities for the Global South
Elemental Reading · Oceanic Humanities for the Global South · Antarctica, Africa and the Arts · Hydrocolonial Perspectives · Southern Oceanic Humanites · Literary Ecologies of the Indian Ocean World
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"The legacies of empire include not only global inequalities but also an environmental crisis in which the oceans have been sites of maximum damage done by the hubris of the Anthropocene." Submit your work to our Special Issue:
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Oceanic Fictions in Indian Languages and Beyond
This issue invites articles encompassing local and vernacular articulations of oceanic encounters through engagement with fiction written in Indian languages
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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!
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Oceanic Fictions in Indian Languages and Beyond
This issue invites articles encompassing local and vernacular articulations of oceanic encounters through engagement with fiction written in Indian languages
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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
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Oceanic Humanities for the Global South
Oceanic Humanities for the Global South is a platform that aims to evolve an oceanic humanities appropriate to the global south. It records, showcases and connects research, writing, artistic producti...
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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:
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Oceanic Fictions in Indian Languages and Beyond
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
An excellent project uncovering the beautiful, but sadly endangered architecture of South Asia
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Global Souths Hub @globalsouthshub.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
🕊️ 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 🔽
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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.
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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.
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Learn about Global South Literary Studies aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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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Global South Literary Studies
Publishes work examining the literary and cultural expressions that respond to and emerge from the Global South.
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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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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Learn about Global South Literary Studies aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
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Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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 🎉
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Global South Literary Studies
Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Global South Literary Studies.
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