Unhappy Beginnings Narratives of Precarity Failure and Resistance in North American Texts 1st Edition Isabel González-Díaz 1000998207 9781000998207

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• ISBN 10: 1000998207
• ISBN 13: 9781000998207
• Author: Isabel González-Díaz

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.

Table of contents:

1. Nomadland: A Narrative of Class and Age Vulnerability in the 21st Century
Introduction
2. “They endured”: Precarity, Vulnerability, and Resistance in the Works of Jesmyn Ward
Introduction
3. Happy Endings and Unhappy Beginnings: Representing Precarity and Vulnerability in Recessionary Comedies
4. The Road to Serfdom: The (Unhappy) Neoliberal Workplace in The Assistant
5. Disaffected Archives: Jacqueline Woodson’s Cruel Attachments in Red at the Bone
6. The (Un)happiness of Urban Indigeneity in Tommy Orange’s There There
7. Trans-forming Transness: The Failed Dissident Body as (Non)Human Political Possibility in Kai Cheng Thom’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
8. Of Morrissey and Other Antisocial Icons: Unhappiness and Failure in Elliott DeLine’s Refuse
9. Stigma, Vulnerability, Unhappiness, and Abjection: How Angels in America Reconstructs AIDS Politics of Silence
10. Powers of Failure: The Catcher in the Rye Against Early Neoliberal Rationality
11. Reimagining Hope in the Age of Despair: The Films of Roberto Minervini
12. Affect Theory and Life Narratives
13. Run, Rabbits, Run: Post-Racialism, Modern Slavery, and Slow Violence in Jordan Peele’s Get Out
14. Cold Feelings: Apathy, Difference, and Withdrawal in Herman Melville’s White-Jacket

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