Economic Informality and World Literature

Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Neoliberalism and World-Literature
	Method
	Case Studies
	Works Cited
Chapter 2: From Malandros to Agregados: The Precarious Labourer and the Novel Form in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
	Introduction
	Part I
		Rethinking ‘Dialéctica malandragem’
		The Dialectic of Order and Disorder in the Text
	Part II
		The agregado and the Novel Form in Dom Casmurro
	Works Cited
Chapter 3: Sex Work in Caribbean Fiction
	Caribbean Fiction and Neoliberalism
	Informal Aesthetics in Heading South
	Haiti’s Informal Economy in the World-System
	Order and Disorder
	Works Cited
Chapter 4: Economic Informality in South African Fiction
	Works Cited
Chapter 5: (In)formal Structure in Wizard of the Crow
	Objective Form in Kenyan Fiction
	Informal Labour and the Creative Economy
	(In)formal Structure
	Objective (In)formality in Wizard
	Conclusion: Informality and Resistance
	Works Cited
Chapter 6: Precarious Core
	Part I
		The ‘West’ and Modernity
		The Vicar of Wakefield
	Part II
		Repressions and Representations
		Abstraction and Hilary Leichter’s Temporary
		The Social Cost of Reproduction: Race and Gender
	Works Cited
Index