The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Keywords : Precariousness, Gender Performativity, Japan, Post-Fordist Capitalism, Resistance. With Judith Butler’s studies on gender performativity and precariousness, and textual analysis of the novel, the authors of this paper study how anxiety-ridden precarious living conditions can also become a foundation for alternative performances troubling gender categories, thereby transcending the narrow social scripts rooted in exclusion and inequality. The textuality of the workspace in the novel parallels the world outside of it, making the convenience store a microcosm for the capitalist world after globalisation. Precarity experienced under post-Fordist capitalism forces institutionalised forms of recognition where the performances of identities are regulated and constructed to ensure survival. The workspace, which the protagonist of the novel considers as her safest place despite being a forcibly normalised environment, could not hold its illusion of stability for long as it becomes a precarious space of crisis. The protagonist Keiko, a freeter herself, struggles to live up to the societal expectations of marriage, motherhood, and a stable career. This ontological vulnerability prevalent in modern workplaces has profound repercussions on gender relations and identity formation and attempts to resist and expose these hegemonic powers shape the central theme in Sayaka Murata’s deadpan comedy Convenience Store Woman (2018). They led a life of insecurity and hopelessness. These vulnerable part-time employees, also called freeters, are victims of anxiety and social pressure. A country known for permanent employment and long-term stability was replaced by policies that enabled a new class of temporary workers. However, the economic recession in the 1990s led to the birth of the precariat in Japan. The socio-economic phenomenon of post-Fordism strengthened the growing Japanese economy since the 1970s. Precarity and Performativity in Post-Fordist Japanese Workplace: A Reading of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman (This article is published under the Themed Issue Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Literary and Cultural Studies) Ībstract received: 31 March 2021 | Complete article received: 2 June 2021 | Revised article received: | Accepted: | First Published: 05 February 2022 Jaseel P & Rashmi Gaurĭepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.
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