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This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this encounter fundamentally shaped the way in which South Asian literature exploded into popularity from the 1980s until the mid-2000s.

"This is the first book to bring together the modern literature of Iran, Turkey, the multinational Soviet Union, and South Asia into a single connected story. It traces the process by which leftist poets from across Eurasia made classical Persianate poetry into the beating heart of non-Western literary internationalism"--