| 书目名称 | Economic Informality and World Literature |
| 编辑 | Josh Jewell |
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| 概述 | Investigates the registration of economic informality in literature, and specifically in the novel.Examines case-studies from nineteenth-century Brazil and from Haiti, Kenya and South Africa.Contribut |
| 丛书名称 | New Comparisons in World Literature |
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| 描述 | .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 si |
| 出版日期 | Book 2024 |
| 关键词 | Literature and Economics; World literature; Labour; Novel; Gig-economy |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53134-7 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-53136-1 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-53134-7Series ISSN 2634-6095 Series E-ISSN 2634-6109 |
| issn_series | 2634-6095 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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