South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English

Ever since T.B. Macaulay leveled the accusation in 1835 that ''a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India,'' South Asian literature has served as the imagined battleground between local linguistic multiplicity and a rapidly globalizing English. In response to this endless polemic, Indian and Pakistani writers set out in another direction altogether. Th...