ABSTRACT
The Global South is usually treated as a conceptual category, but there is also a geographic dimension of regional or national souths in conversation with each other. One important instance of these South–South relations is the U.S. South, whose transnationalism is foregrounded in texts that situate it in conversation with, among other places, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa. This chapter explores whether discourses and structures of feeling specific to the U.S. South can also apply to the Global South, using the “Deep South” as a test case. Centering its focus on two very different texts, Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness and Mira Nair's 1990 film Mississippi Masala, the chapter concludes by considering the possibility of a Deep Global South.
