ABSTRACT

The short piece excerpted here is from a novel-in-progress provisionally entitled, The Academic Gamble, a take-no-prisoners-style satire of global academia which can be humorous at times but often leaves a bitter aftertaste as is the purpose of parody. The larger work primarily lampoons US elite universities and their professoriate in the context of deepening inequalities brought about by neoliberalism (widespread precarisation of academic labour, deepening socioeconomic divisions between private elite universities and struggling state universities and inner-city colleges, etc.). The novel is written in the third person and is told from the point of view of multiple characters who often have different opinions on the same events but for the purposes of this excerpt, the story is focalised through the eyes of a naïve young American postgrad and is limited to a few short episodes of her time in South Africa.

摘要

这里摘录的短片来自一本进行中的小说，临时命名为《学术赌博》，这是全球学术界的不拘一格的讽刺作品，有时可能很幽默，但通常会产生仿效的苦涩回味。更大的工作主要是在新自由主义加剧不平等（学术劳动力普遍受到普遍重视，加深私立精英大学与陷入困境的州立大学和城市学院之间的社会经济鸿沟）的背景下，嘲笑美国精英大学及其教授。这部小说是用第三人称写的，是从多个人物的角度讲述的，这些人物通常对同一事件有不同的看法，但出于本节摘录的目的，该故事是通过一个年轻的美国年轻博士后的眼光聚焦的。只限于她在南非的几段短片。