{"title":"Peripheral Labor","authors":"Christine Okoth","doi":"10.1353/mfs.2022.0005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":45576,"journal":{"name":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MFS-Modern Fiction Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0005","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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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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.
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