Metacritic Journal


for Comparative Studies and Theory

Hope and Utopia in Global South Literature 8.2 (December 2022)
ISSN 2457 – 8827
Om Prakash Dwivedi, Roderick McGillis Om Prakash Dwivedi, Roderick McGillis

Introduction: Hope and Utopia in Global South Literature


Recommended Citation: Dwivedi, Om Prakash and Roderick McGillis. “Introduction: Hope and Utopia in Global South Literature.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.2 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.14.01.

Abstract: Within academic disciplines, the category of Global South is highly contested with no agreements on the definition of the term. One cannot deny the amorphous nature of the term, yet its gravitational pull can be potentially effective in...   ⇨ Read more
Om Prakash  Dwivedi Om Prakash Dwivedi

Bioprecarity, Disposability, and the Poetics of Hope in Swarga


Recommended Citation: Dwivedi, Om Prakash. “Bioprecarity, Disposability, and the Poetics of Hope in Swarga.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.2 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.14.02.

Abstract: This article conceptualizes the everyday existential crisis of man, nature, including the planetary life as bioprecarity. It looks at the neoliberal capitalist economy that renders bios precarious. The bios incudes humans, more-than-humans, and natural...   ⇨ Read more
Nilanjana  Chatterjee Nilanjana Chatterjee

Ecological ‘Self’ vs the Ecological ‘Other’: Indigenous Naga Ecotopia for the Dystopic World


Recommended Citation: Chatterjee, Nilanjana. “Ecological ‘Self’ vs the Ecological ‘Other’: Indigenous Naga Ecotopia for the Dystopic World.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 8.2 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.14.03.

Abstract: Critics have used the colonizer/colonized or the Global North/Global South binaries to restore human rights and freedom. But these planetary or ideological binaries –though theoretically convenient – might not be ecologically...   ⇨ Read more
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

‘I Choose Life’: Negation, Agency, and Utopian Hope in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North


Recommended Citation: Umezurike, Uchechukwu Peter. “‘I Choose Life’: Negation, Agency, and Utopian Hope in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.2 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.14.04.

Abstract: Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North dramatizes the violence of colonialism and patriarchy and their impact on the African psyche. This article shifts from the prevailing scholarship on Mustafa, the...   ⇨ Read more
Jey  Sushil Jey Sushil

Making Sense of Fragmented Bodies across Generations: Tamas and Kitne Pakistan


Recommended Citation: Sushil, Jey. “Making Sense of Fragmented Bodies across Generations: Tamas and Kitne Pakistan.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.2 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.14.05.

Abstract: What is the real extent of 75 years when discussing a traumatic event like the Partition of 1947, at least in fiction? In a bid to explore this, the article analyzes two Hindi novels divided by a span of 27 years: the first, Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas...   ⇨ Read more
Tegan Schetrumpf, Aleks Wansbrough Tegan Schetrumpf, Aleks Wansbrough

Imagining Utopia through Communities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West


Recommended Citation: Schetrumpf, Tegan and Aleks Wansbrough. “Imagining Utopia through Communities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.2 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.14.06.

Abstract: Mohsin Hamid’s novel, Exit West (2017) takes place in a world where magical doorways allow refugees passage between countries. Following the couple Saeed and Nadia – refugees from an unnamed city undergoing fundamentalist insurrection –...   ⇨ Read more
Andreea Mîrț Andreea Mîrț

Translating the Global South in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and Elaine Castillo’s America is Not the Heart


Recommended Citation: Mîrț, Andreea. “Translating the Global South in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and Elaine Castillo’s America is Not the Heart.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.2 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.14.07.

Abstract: My article aims to examine the concept of the Global South (Russel West-Pavlov) as it is represented in two contemporary novels, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and Elaine Castillo’s America is not the...   ⇨ Read more
Binayak Roy Binayak Roy

South Asian Village and the (Im)Possibility of Utopia. Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s The Tale of Hansuli Turn


Recommended Citation: Roy, Binayak. “South Asian Village and the (Im)Possibility of Utopia. Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s The Tale of Hansuli Turn.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.2 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.14.08.

Abstract: Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s The Tale of Hansuli Turn depicts a utopic, autochthonous, and indigenous rural community, the Kahars, in a state of transition. The marginalized community is certainly not a homogeneous and...   ⇨ Read more
Paul Mihai Paraschiv Paul Mihai Paraschiv

Becoming Bone Sheep: Assemblages, Becomings, and Antianthropocentrism


Recommended Citation: Paraschiv, Paul. “Becoming Bone Sheep: Assemblages, Becomings, and Antianthropocentrism.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.2 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.14.09.

Abstract: This article employs the graphic narrative Becoming Bone Sheep in order to present visually and textually the theories applied in building a critique of the Anthropocene. Concepts like gaze, becoming process, assemblage, de-flocking, racial proximity,...   ⇨ Read more
István Berszán István Berszán

Dislocating the Theory of the Contextualist Approach


Recommended Citation: Berszán, István. “Dislocating the Theory of the Contextualist Approach.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.2 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.14.10.

Abstract: In Eastern Europe it is unusual to write a new theory – the exceptions are indeed exceptional. Considering the alternative versions of modernities, Romanticisms or Reformations, it seems that we can at last set aside the compulsory model of the West-East transfer of...   ⇨ Read more