AMU Faculty Member Contributes a Chapter in the Routledge Companion

Aligarh : “The Routledge Companion to Literature and The Global South”,  has carried a chapter by Dr. A.K. Muneer, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), entitled “Amphibious Poetics on the Malabar Coast: Kappappāṭṭu and the Chronotope of the Ship in Mappila Literary Culture”.

Combining the analytics of “amphibious poetics” and Bakhtin’s famous “chronotope,” this chapter is an attempt to read a multilingual “ship song” with the larger aim of making interventions in the current fields of comparative literature and world literature from a “Global South” vantage point.

The chapter has sought to bring the analytic of amphibious poetics built on contemporary mari-time studies within the Global South to bear on an analysis of the ship chronotope in the multilingual Arabi Malayalam literary culture of the Malabar Coast in the Indian Ocean world, with a focus on a text, the Kappappāṭṭu, which marks a watershed in the history of that culture spanning centuries of literary production and performance.

Prof Mohammad Asim Siddiqui, Chairman, Department of English, AMU congratulated Dr. Muneer for getting published in the prestigious Routledge Literature Companions series.

Edited by Alfred J. López and Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, the Routledge Companion offers a comprehensive overview of the field at a key moment in its development—a snapshot of where Global South literary studies stands in its second decade.

Organized into three parts, the volume consists of original chapters by 25 contributors from around the world.