The idea that (semi-)peripheral societies might follow developmental pathways distinct from those prescribed by globalization has been explored at length in the last twenty years by scholars such as G. G. Alcock, Rem Koolhaus, Jane Guyer, AbdouMaliq Simone, Achille Mbembe, and Sarah Nuttall. For scholars who have celebrated these kinds of sociality, the informal economy—as Keith Hart has called it—represents Gordimer’s “space that lies between camps”: an alternative social velocity to both the corrupt or “can’t do” state and global capitalist modernization. But more and more South African writers are using their work to interrogate the idea that living in the interstices of institutions such as the state, traditional community, and capital is in fact liberatory or counter-hegemonic. In this article I argue that Masande Ntshanga’s 2014 novel The Reactive is the paradigm of the “disaffection” of present fiction—as Ivan Vladislavić describes it—with contemporary South Africa.

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Masande Ntshanga 的 The Reactive 中的非正规经济

在过去的二十年里，GG Alcock、Rem Koolhaus、Jane Guyer、AbdouMaliq Simone、Achille Mbembe 和 Sarah 等学者对（半）边缘社会可能遵循的发展道路可能会遵循不同于全球化规定的发展道路的观点进行了深入探讨坚果。对于赞扬这类社会性的学者来说，非正规经济——正如基思哈特所说——代表了戈迪默的“阵营之间的空间”：腐败或“做不到”的国家和全球资本主义的另一种社会速度现代化。但越来越多的南非作家正在用他们的作品质疑这样一种观念，即生活在国家、传统社区和资本等机构的缝隙中实际上是解放的还是反霸权的。在这篇文章中，我认为 Masande Ntshanga 2014 年的小说反应性正如 Ivan Vladislavić 所描述的那样，是现代小说对当代南非的“不满”范例。