Description: Countering a Northern focus in much Atlantic World scholarship, this volume brings together new scholarship in comparative literary studies, cultural studies and history which explores the South Atlantic as a region, or the way the Atlantic more widely has been viewed from the Global South.
Brief description: Joseph R. Slaughter is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and President of the American Comparative Literature Association.
Review Quotes: The Global South Atlantic is an important work because this edition exemplifies active scholarship that can move beyond overstressed disciplinary categorizations, the use of only canonized texts, and false periodization. Finding interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and multilingual fields for Atlantic studies provides important antitheses to challenge the consistent drudgery of the dominant Western narrative of progressive liberalism and irreversible totems like the Atlantic Charter.-- "H-Net Reviews"