Economic Informality and World Literature

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.

• Chapter 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.