外围劳动

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LITERATURE

MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-12 DOI:10.1353/mfs.2022.0005

Christine Okoth

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摘要

摘要:本文通过对当代尼日利亚移民小说中的劳工问题的关注，从文学角度阐述了当代资本主义对桑德罗·梅扎德拉和布雷特·尼尔森所说的“差异包容”的依赖。在奇曼达·恩戈齐·阿迪奇的小说《美国人》和莱斯利·恩内卡·阿里玛的短篇小说《意外之财》中，人物发现自己占据了当代资本主义的经济边缘，在有薪和无薪工作、正式和非正式就业之间摇摆不定。正如本文所展示的，这些角色所对抗的叙事外围化机制也作为维持非洲大陆以英语为母语、新自由主义和价值产生的愿景的一种手段。

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Peripheral Labor

Abstract:This essay gives a literary account of contemporary capitalism's reliance on what Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson refer to as differential inclusion through a focus on labor in contemporary Nigerian migrant fiction. In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Americanah and Lesley Nneka Arimah's short story "Windfalls," characters find themselves occupying the economic peripheries of contemporary capitalism, oscillating between waged and unwaged work, formal and informal employment. As this essay demonstrates, the mechanisms of narrative peripheralization that these characters contend with also function as a means of maintaining an Anglophone, neoliberal, and value-producing vision of the African continent.

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MFS-Modern Fiction Studies LITERATURE-

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期刊介绍： Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.