The Worlding of the South African Novel

Poyner, Jane

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“…[…] Readers hunger for large stories that … offer them some sort of large-scale vision' (Palumbo-Liu et al, 2011: 9). This issue takes its cue from those materialist scholars who draw on world-systems theory to argue that world-culture is best conceptualised with regard to the capitalist world-system, and, consequently, that the concept of combined and uneven development provides fruitful avenues through which to compare the aesthetic properties of seemingly diverse cultural forms (WReC, 2015;Macdonald, 2017;Shapiro and Barnard, 2017;Deckard and Shapiro, 2019;Lawrence, 2020;Mukherjee, 2020;Niblett, 2020;Poyner, 2020;Deckard, 2021;Lazarus, 2022;Oloff, 2023;Deckard et al, 2024).…”

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Social Reproduction Feminism and World-Culture: Introduction

Deckard,

Houlden

2023

Feminist Theory

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Over twenty years ago, Amrita Basu, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan and Liisa Malkki argued that 'capitalism depended on sexism in order to be global ' (2001: 943). This special issue revisits and updates that claim by combining the critical lenses of social reproduction feminism, world-systems and world-ecology. As Basu et al. rightly observed, '[p]utting gender at the very center of considerations of globalization enables us to understand globalization as a set of very uneven processes that are based upon older hegemonic formations as well as new subjects and practices ' (2001: 943). In deploying a reinvigorated social reproduction feminismwhich attests to the importance of the daily work of creating and supporting the emotional and physical needs of life outside of that which capital is willing to pay forwe interrogate both hegemonic and newer, gendered labour practices at the heart of the contemporary moment. Our contributors' analyses of selected world-cultural production reflect how the battle for bodily autonomy, reproductive rights, equality of remuneration and recognition of 'women's work' as work rages on, in illustration of the global intensification of what Silvia Federici (2017) has called 'a true war against women'. 1Recent years have been characterised by the enduring sexual division of labour and caring work, increasingly gendered labour precarity, ongoing workplace limitations for women, endemic rape culture, the escalation of the battle for reproductive rights, entrenched racialised distinction between women's productive and reproductive labours and the continuing stigmatisation of trans lives. Yet the international war on women is not the only long-term crisis rapidly reaching critical mass. Ecological catastrophe and the climate violence wrought by capitalism feed into, and combine with,

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Social Reproduction Feminism and World-Culture: Introduction

Deckard,

Houlden

2023

Feminist Theory

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“…Rebecca Fasselt, Corinne Sandwith and Khulukazi Soldati-Kahimbaara see it as a "transitional moment" and the short story is considered as "a viable genre for the depiction" of such a moment, partly because of its "inconclusiveness" as a form (Fasselt et al 2014, 6). The aesthetic options available have been explored through an examination of writers within the frames of realism, modernism, post-modernism and magic realism (Lazarus 2011b;Grzeda 2013;Poyner 2020). The originality of Mashigo's stories can be best understood by exploring the pertinent elements of the South African context in the light of the pressures exerted by an increasingly global frame; their specificity lies in the relation between these two scales, or levels.…”

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