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Economic informality and world literature

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Economic informality and world literature/ by Josh Jewell.
Author:	Jewell, Josh.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2024.,
Description:	viii, 234 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Chapter 1- From Malandros to Agregados:the Precarious Labourer and the Novel Form in 19th Century Brazil -- Chapter 2-Sex Work in Caribbean Fiction -- Chapter 3 Economic Informality in South African Fiction -- Chapter 4 -(In) formal structure in Wizard of the Crow -- Chapter 5-Precarious Core.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Neoliberalism and literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53134-7
ISBN:	9783031531347

Economic informality and world literature
Jewell, Josh.

Economic informality and world literature[electronic resource] /by Josh Jewell. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024. - viii, 234 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - New comparisons in world literature,2634-6109. - New comparisons in world literature..

Chapter 1- From Malandros to Agregados:the Precarious Labourer and the Novel Form in 19th Century Brazil -- Chapter 2-Sex Work in Caribbean Fiction -- Chapter 3 Economic Informality in South African Fiction -- Chapter 4 -(In) formal structure in Wizard of the Crow -- Chapter 5-Precarious Core.

This book analyses the impact of economic informality on the novel form across the modern world-system, looking specifically at works by Antonio de Almeida, Machado de Assis, Dany Laferrière, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, and Masande Ntshanga. It sees the representation of informal economies as a structural homology of world-literature. In chapters on the figure of the agregado in the nineteenth-century Brazilian novel; sex work in Haitian fiction; the politics of the informal economy in the post-apartheid South African novel; and Ngugi's representation African occult economies, Josh Jewell explores the relationship between the rise of improvised economic activity-and its consolidation under neoliberalism in postcolonial nations-and literary form. He shows how informal economies can be grasped as locations of strategy and improvisation whose subjects must shift constantly between officialdom and underground networks; between the realms of the licit and illicit. This produces highly heterogenous narratives oscillating between different tones and registers (unserious and tragic), social spaces (working-class and elite), and conceptions of reality. By comparing the various situated aesthetics of informality, this book instrumentalises the Warwick Research Collective's compelling but nebulous idea of a world-literature that "variously registers" a "singular modernity". Josh Jewell is a resident scholar in the Humanities Institute at University College Dublin, Ireland. His research analyses the relationship between labour and literary form in world-literature. His current postdoctoral research project focuses on representations of labour which falls outside of direct market mediation--such as domestic labour and peasant agriculture--in South Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the European periphery.

ISBN: 9783031531347

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-53134-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

3476093
Neoliberalism and literature.

LC Class. No.: PN51

Dewey Class. No.: 809.393553

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