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25 - Antipodal Turns: Antipodean Americas and the Hemispheric Shift

from Part IV - Cartographic Shifts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2021

By
Paul Giles
Edited by
Debjani Ganguly
Debjani Ganguly
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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This essay describes how the antipodal turn has impacted upon World Literature in both its geographic and figurative dimensions. It examines the history of the term antipodean in relation to a rhetoric of transposition and also considers it in the context of ecological and Indigenous criticism, as well as the new prominence of the Global South. The essay addresses the specific relevance of Australian culture to this formation, and it concludes by suggesting ways in which this antipodal turn might constitute a productive critical method.

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antipodaltranspositionGlobal Southecocriticismindigenous
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The Cambridge History of World Literature , pp. 477 - 494
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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