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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
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List of Contributors
An Approach to Unhappy Beginnings.
Isabel González-Díaz and Fabián Orán-Llarena
1. Nomadland: A Narrative of Class and Age Vulnerability in the 21st Century.
Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz
2. “They endured”: Precarity, Vulnerability, and Resistance in the Works of Jesmyn Ward.
Paula Granda
3. Happy Endings and Unhappy Beginnings: Representing Precarity and Vulnerability in Recessionary Comedies.
Elena Oliete-Aldea
4. The Road to Serfdom: The (Unhappy) Neoliberal Workplace in The Assistant.
Fabián Orán-Llarena
5. Disaffected Archives: Jacqueline Woodson’s Cruel Attachments in Red at the Bone. Paula Barba Guerrero
6. The (Un)happiness of Urban Indigeneity in Tommy Orange’s There There.
Martina Horáková
7. Trans-forming Transness: The Failed Dissident Body as (Non)Human Political Possibility in Kai Cheng Thom’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars.
Juan Carlos Hidalgo-Ciudad
8. Of Morrissey and Other Antisocial Icons: Unhappiness and Failure in Elliott DeLine’s Refuse.
Isabel González-Díaz
9. Stigma, Vulnerability, Unhappiness, and Abjection: How Angels in America Reconstructs AIDS Politics of Silence.
J. Javier Torres-Fernández
10. Powers of Failure: The Catcher in the Rye Against Early Neoliberal Rationality.
Julia Rojo de Castro
11. Reimagining Hope in the Age of Despair: The Films of Roberto Minervini.
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