The Novel as Affective Site: Uncertain work as impasse in Wait Until Spring, Bandini
提出阅读和写作小说有助于组织研究中的情感研究，以约翰·范特的小说为例，探讨当代工作中“被困住”的体验（如僵局、临时状态），并揭示情感强度如何与社会规范（如美国梦）纠缠而持续存在。
In this paper we propose that reading and writing with novels contributes to the emerging field of researching affect in organization studies. Situating our argument in current research on work-related uncertainty, we take John Fante’s novel Wait Until Spring, Bandini as a ‘sensuous site’ of research to engage with the experience of feeling stuck – addressed as impasse, limbo or permanent temporariness – as a condition of contemporary work lives. While affect theoretical approaches often emphasize precognitive intensities and their transformative potential, the novel foregrounds how affective intensities stay and stick as they are entangled with powerful socio-political conventions, such as investments in the American Dream or the idea of stable employment. Such affective attachments take shape in antithetic dynamics of the not-so-static state of feeling stuck.