03820nam a22004935i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001400172072001500186072002300201072001400224100008200238245008800320250001800408264007900426300003500505336002600540337002600566338003600592347002400628490005200652505029900704520186001003650002302863650002802886650001302914650002902927650002802956650002402984710003403008773002603042776003603068776003603104776003603140830005903176856004603235912001403281912001403295999001703309978-3-031-53134-7DE-He21320251030112017.0cr nn 008mamaa240429s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315313479978-3-031-53134-77 a10.1007/978-3-031-53134-72doi 4aPN843-849 7aDS2bicssc 7aLIT0000002bisacsh 7aDS2thema1 aJewell, Josh.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut97598510aEconomic Informality and World Literatureh[electronic resource] /cby Josh Jewell.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aVIII, 234 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aNew Comparisons in World Literature,x2634-61090 aChapter 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.  aThis 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. 0aLiterature.965108 0aComparative literature. 0aFiction.14aWorld Literature.96665524aComparative Literature.24aFiction Literature.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303153133008iPrinted edition:z978303153135408iPrinted edition:z9783031531361 0aNew Comparisons in World Literature,x2634-610997598640uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53134-7  aZDB-2-LCM  aZDB-2-SXL  c59483d59483