The Informal Economy in Masande Ntshanga’s The Reactive

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI:10.1017/pli.2022.30
Josh Jewell
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Abstract The idea that (semi-)peripheral societies might follow developmental pathways distinct from those prescribed by globalization has been explored at length in the last twenty years by scholars such as G. G. Alcock, Rem Koolhaus, Jane Guyer, AbdouMaliq Simone, Achille Mbembe, and Sarah Nuttall. For scholars who have celebrated these kinds of sociality, the informal economy—as Keith Hart has called it—represents Gordimer’s “space that lies between camps”: an alternative social velocity to both the corrupt or “can’t do” state and global capitalist modernization. But more and more South African writers are using their work to interrogate the idea that living in the interstices of institutions such as the state, traditional community, and capital is in fact liberatory or counter-hegemonic. In this article I argue that Masande Ntshanga’s 2014 novel The Reactive is the paradigm of the “disaffection” of present fiction—as Ivan Vladislavić describes it—with contemporary South Africa.
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马桑德·恩尚加《反应》中的非正规经济
在过去的20年里,G. G. Alcock、Rem Koolhaus、Jane Guyer、AbdouMaliq Simone、Achille Mbembe和Sarah Nuttall等学者对(半)边缘社会可能遵循与全球化所规定的不同的发展路径进行了详细的探讨。对于那些赞扬这种社会的学者来说,非正式经济——正如基思·哈特所称——代表了戈迪默的“位于阵营之间的空间”:一种替代腐败或“无能为力”的国家和全球资本主义现代化的社会速度。但越来越多的南非作家正在用他们的作品来质疑这样一种观点,即生活在国家、传统社区和资本等机构的间隙中,实际上是一种解放或反霸权。在这篇文章中,我认为Masande Ntshanga 2014年的小说《反应式》是当代小说对当代南非“不满”的典范——正如Ivan vladislaviki所描述的那样。
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