Unhappy Beginnings: Narratives of Precarity, Failure, and Resistance in North American Texts (Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture)
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- Synopsis
- This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness, precarity, failure, and vulnerability. The chapters bring to the fore how those potentially negative elements can be refigured as ambivalent sites of resistance and social bonding. Following Sara Ahmed’s rereading of happiness, other authors such as Judith Butler, Wendy Brown, Jack Halberstam, Lauren Berlant, or Henry Giroux are mobilized to interrogate films, memoirs, and novels that deal with precarity, alienation, and inequality. The monograph contributes to enlarging the archives of unhappiness by changing the focus from prescribed norms and happy endings to unruly practices and unhappy beginnings. As the different contributors show, unhappiness, precarity, vulnerability, or failure can be harnessed to illuminate ways of navigating the world and framing society that do not necessarily conform to the script of happiness—whatever that means.
- Copyright:
- 2023
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781000998207
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781032526607, 9781032526591, 9781003407744
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 12/21/23
- Copyrighted By:
- selection and editorial matter, Isabel González-Díaz and Fabián Orán-Llarena
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Psychology, Language Arts, Philosophy
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- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Isabel González-Díaz
- Edited by:
- Fabián Orán-Llarena
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