The Global Anglophone

This book addresses the rise of the concept of the "Global Anglophone" in contemporary literary studies, both as an intellectual category and as a field designation. Moving beyond traditional postcolonial frameworks, it investigates how this emerging paradigm is reshaping our understanding of modern English-language literature across geographical boundaries. Distinguished scholars from diverse regions of the English-speaking world reveal how the Global Anglophone has evolved from a subset of postcolonial studies into a comprehensive framework for examining modern literary production in English. Through rigorous analysis and argumentation, the contributors demonstrate how this conceptual transformation reflects broader changes in academic field structures, job markets, and our understanding of world literature. Essential reading for literary scholars, The Global Anglophone interrogates the future of English literary studies while offering valuable insights into the shifting landscape of contemporary academia. It challenges conventional categorizations and proposes new ways of understanding the complex relationships among language, literature, and global cultural exchange. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

Anjuli I. Gunaratne is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. Jeffrey Lawrence is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, where he teaches modern US and Latin American Literature. He is the author of Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño (2018).

Introductions The Rise of Global Anglophone The Global Anglophone: An Institutional Argument 1. Angloglobalism, Multilingualism and World Literature 2. Aspirations of Relationality: Asian American Studies, American Studies, East Asian Studies, and the Global Anglophone 3. Loose Canons: The Global Anglophone Novel and the Failures of Universalism 4. Area Studies: From "Global Anglophone" to Afropolitan Literature 5. Just Add Global 6. Of Global Anglophone: A Response