04057nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-53134-7 DE-He213 20251030112017.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240429s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031531347 978-3-031-53134-7 10.1007/978-3-031-53134-7 doi PN843-849 DS bicssc LIT000000 bisacsh DS thema Jewell, Josh. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 75985 Economic Informality and World Literature [electronic resource] / by Josh Jewell. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. VIII, 234 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda New Comparisons in World Literature, 2634-6109 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. Literature. 65108 Comparative literature. Fiction. World Literature. 66655 Comparative Literature. Fiction Literature. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031531330 Printed edition: 9783031531354 Printed edition: 9783031531361 New Comparisons in World Literature, 2634-6109 75986 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53134-7 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 59483 59483