CFP: South Asian Literatures in the World South Asian Review Guest Editor: Dr. Madhurima Chakraborty South Asian Review invites 5000-word essays for a Special Issue on South Asian Literatures in the World. We invite work that thinks about the international relationships, global contexts, and other national, regional, and collective identities that help generate and give meaning to South Asian culture. A persistent demand among liberation, anticolonial, and postcolonial thinkers has been to decentralize the prominence of Europe and the Global North while studying postcolonial nations and their intellectual productions. This demand undergirds projects as ideologically and methodologically diverse as Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's Decolonising the Mind, Spivak's Death of A Discipline, Dipesh Chakrabarty's Provincializing Europe, and Walter Mignolo's Local Histories/Global Design. Famously, and in the particular case of South Asian studies, the Subaltern collective came together in order to try and practice historical study that was a departure from necessarily Eurocentric historiography. Less celebratorily, Dibyesh Anand has argued for an approach that examines India's regional oppressive military presence, especially with regard to its borderland ethnonations, showing how a country can hide its own colonizing actions behind its postcolonial status. The multivalent and heterogenous demands for decentralizing the Global North suggests that such scholarship can be done across disciplines, research methods, period criticism, and ideological lineages. Embracing such plurality, South Asian Review invites submissions that follow a non-Eurocentric investigative spirit and think through South-South affinities, affiliations, and antagonisms. In this, the project of this special issue is different from thinking through the "globalization" of South Asia, which is the naming of a neoliberal process that both centers the technology and consumerism of the Global North and, additionally, casts transnational interactions as a late-twentieth-century phenomenon. Instead, we seek to collect essays that concentrate on expanding the idea of a global South Asia both spatially and temporally. Key questions we ask: What global relationships have underpinned the invention of the South Asian literary imagination? Conversely, what role has South Asian culture played in the imaginaries of other Global South nations or collectives? How has literature represented international conflicts, and what interpretive frameworks have such representations generated? In texts that are concerned with South Asian diasporas in the Global North, what relationships with other ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities have emerged in such literature? How does literature help us interrogate and reconfigure the assumed relationship between the colonized and the colonizer or the Global North and the Global South? How have gender, sexuality, class, and caste shaped some of these relationships? How do vernacular literatures and literatures in translation frame these global relationships? How do they shift and what do they erase in the diaspora? What does it mean to speak of South Asian literature(s) collectively at a time when the nations that comprise this collective are often in conflict- either state-sponsored or otherwise-with each other? In what ways do South Asian literatures prior to the emergence of Anglophone literature engage in global world making? South Asian Review is looking for essays on: . South