1 CENTRE VS MARGINS JESÚS VARELA-ZAPATA. PROFESSOR ENGLISH AND CULTURAL STUDIES. U. SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (SPAIN)

2 THE POSTCOLONIAL “OTHER”

3 the Other dissimilar, different one that is basically separte from the self The unconscious or even the insane (alien/ alienation) Self requires the (radically ) Other

4 PARIS, ALGERIA WAR

5 Edward Said

6 PREJUDICE West: inaccurate representations of the Eastern world Eurocentric prejudice against Arab– Islamic culture

7 ORIENTALISM “exotic East” “inscrutable Orient” the “Other”

8 CANNIBALS

9 FRANKLIN’S EXPEDITION

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11 AFRICAN PORTRAIT

12 SPIVAK (2012 Kyoto Prize)

13 SUBALTERN LATIN: Sub- alter= the other below

14 KIPLING

15 WHITE MAN’S BURDEN Take up the White Man's burden- Send forth the best ye breed— Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.

16 EL PAÍS 02 JUN 2015 AMÉRICA LATINA: LOS DESAFÍOS » Sur busca Sur El tradicional estilo de cooperación del Norte, basado solo en el apoyo financiero, en el arriba-abajo, se difumina como referente. Ejemplos evidentes se dan en las ciudades Las urbes latinoamericanas y africanas, desiguales y faltas de recursos, se alían y apoyan en busca de modelos de desarrollo, convivencia, equidad y paz

17 FOUCAULT Knowledge controlled by stuctures of power and ideology. Discourses are hierarchically controlled.

18 BLACK SKINS, WHITE MASKS Frantz Fanon

19 CENTRE, PERIPHERY

20 NO LONGER EUROCENTRIC

21 What to Write? Chimamanda Adichie

22 NEW LITERATURES

23 H. BLOOM, The Western Canon USA S AUL B ELLOW P AUL B OWLES N ORMAN M AILER A RTHUR M ILLER J OHN U PDIKE T ONI M ORRISON UK AND I RELAND A NTHONY B URGESS G RAHAM G REENE R OBERT G RAVES W ILLIAM G OLDING D ORIS L ESSING S AMUEL B ECKETT P HILIP L ARKIN P OSTCOLONIAL V.S. N AIPAUL D EREK W ALCOTT C HINUA A CHEBE N ADINE G ORDIMER J.M. C OETZEE R.K. N ARAYAN S ALMAN R USHDIE A LICE M UNRO M ARGARET A TWOOD T HOMAS K ENEALLY P ETER C AREY

24 SCHOLARSHIP AND CANON, VARIANTS J. VARELA-ZAPATA WOLE SOYINKA 1934-198622230336.48 CHINUA ACHEBE 1930----2292363.05 LIFE SPAN AWARDED (YEAR) MLA ENTRIES FOR PREVIOUS TEN-YEAR PERIOD MLA ENTRIES FOR SUBSEQUENT TEN-YEAR PERIOD % INCREASE IN MLA RECORDS

25 CULTURA GLOBAL

26 STILL POSTCOLONIAL BUT TREADING THE GLOBAL PATH CHAPTER ONE JESÚS VARELA ZAPATA UNIVERSITY OF SANTIADO DE COMPOSTELA Abstract Literary studies are no exception to the trend contemporary humanities are moving towards in a redefinition in the context of globalization. Literatures in English from geographical backgrounds as diverse as Britain, Ireland, America as well as a vast array of postcolonial countries are currently finding a common ground in emerging fields such as global studies. Given the preeminence of the English language on a world-wide scale, these literatures are expected to become more influential and thus reach higher levels of readership across the continents, beyond the United States or the assorted realms of Commonwealth societies. This means that their coverage of contemporary issues and themes, such as migration or hybridization, will continue expanding, in such a way that the notion of a contemporary literature in English will most likely bear a global label. Keywords: Globalization, Literatures in English, Postcolonial Studies, Global Canon.