Kerry Bystrom publishes book forum for the Global South Studies project at the University of Virginia

Professor of English and Human Rights and Associate Dean of Bard College Berlin, Kerry Bystrom, has co-authored an introduction to a book forum published by University of Virginia’s Global South Studies project. The book forum is a collection of essays by various authors in response to a single book, in this case, Monica Popescu’s At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies,  and the Cold War (Duke University Press 2020).

Bystrom wrote the introduction with Carolyn Ownbey, Assistant Professor and Chair of English, Communications, and Literature at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. Popescu’s book traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history.

The project aims to advance the emergent field of Global South Studies by providing a platform and forum for a conceptual mapping of key concepts/thinkers/moments/issues within the field and is inspired by Deepika Bahri's innovative and influential PostcolonialStudies@Emory.

Read the full essay on the Global South Studies website >>
 

Post Date: 08-09-2022