Contributors to this special issue explore world literatures of the Indian Ocean as a site for studying mobile networks of capital and labor as well as diasporic movements generated by European imperial expansion and its aftermath. These circularities shape both identities and the cultural interactions that arise from them and that connect places and peoples. In doing so, the authors bring Indian Ocean Studies into conversation with ongoing efforts to globalize literary historiography.
Firat Oruc is a Assistant Professor of World Literature at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar.
FranÇoise Lionnet is a Research Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, African and African American Studies in Residence, and Women, and Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University.
