Unhappy beginnings : narratives of precarity, failure, and resistance in North American texts / edited by Isabel González-Díaz and Fabián Orán-Llarena.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

González-Díaz, Isabel, editor.

Orán-Llarena, Fabián, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Routledge research in American literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Happiness in literature.

Social norms in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric)--Philosophy.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Closure (Rhetoric)--Philosophy.

Closure (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Isabel Gonzl̀ez-D̕az is a PhD lecturer at the University of La Laguna, where she teaches US literature. Her research interests include gender, literature, and cultural studies, with a special focus on life narratives. She has published various articles on life writing and gender, on feminism and cultural studies, and on transgender narratives. Fabiǹ Orǹ-Llarena is a PhD lecturer at the University of La Laguna. His research interests include cultural studies and film studies, with a special focus on contemporary US film and its representation of the politics and history of neoliberalism, the rise of right-wing populism, and the post-9/11 context.

Contents:

Introduction: An Approach to Unhappy Beginnings

Nomadland: A Narrative of Class and Age Vulnerability in the 21st Century

"They endured": Precarity, Vulnerability, and Resistance in the Works of Jesmyn Ward

Happy Endings and Unhappy Beginnings: Representing Precarity and Vulnerability in Recessionary Comedies

The Road to Serfdom: The (Unhappy) Neoliberal Workplace in The Assistant

Disaffected Archives: Jacqueline Woodson's Cruel Attachments in Red at the Bone

The (Un)happiness of Urban Indigeneity in Tommy Orange's There There

Trans-forming Transness: The Failed Dissident Body as (Non) Human Political Possibility in Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

Of Morrissey and Other Antisocial Icons: Unhappiness and Failure in Elliott DeLine's Refuse

Stigma, Vulnerability, Unhappiness, and Abjection: How Angels in America Reconstructs AIDS Politics of Silence

Powers of Failure: The Catcher in the Rye Against Early Neoliberal Rationality

Reimagining Hope in the Age of Despair: The Films of Roberto Minervini

Affect Theory and Life Narratives

Run, Rabbits, Run: Post-Racialism, Modern Slavery, and Slow Violence in Jordan Peele's Get Out

Cold Feelings: Apathy, Difference, and Withdrawal in Herman Melville's White-Jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 29, 2023).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Unhappy beginnings

ISBN:

9781003407744

1003407749

9781000998177

1000998177

9781000998207

1000998207

Publisher Number:

40032262341

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.