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100	1		_aJewell, Josh. _eauthor. _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut _975985
245	1	0	_aEconomic Informality and World Literature _h[electronic resource] / _cby Josh Jewell.
250			_a1st ed. 2024.
264		1	_aCham : _bSpringer Nature Switzerland : _bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan, _c2024.
300			_aVIII, 234 p. _bonline resource.
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490	1		_aNew Comparisons in World Literature, _x2634-6109
505	0		_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.
520			_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.
650		0	_aLiterature. _965108
650		0	_aComparative literature.
650		0	_aFiction.
650	1	4	_aWorld Literature. _966655
650	2	4	_aComparative Literature.
650	2	4	_aFiction Literature.
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