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Unhappy Beginnings: Narratives of Precarity, Failure, and Resistance in North American Texts

Part of the Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture series
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    1. The articles in this monograph account for the myriad ways in which fictions and life narratives can wield unhappiness and failure as tools to resist all forms of normativity and oppression.
    2. This book welcomes readers, both scholarly and non-specialists, interested in gaining insight into how Canadian and US writers and filmmakers have discussed what happiness does to individuals.
    3. Students of North American Studies will be able to explore both classic and contemporary texts that deal with precarity, alienation, and inequality through an academic lens.
    4. The field of Affect Theory is rich and ever-expanding. This book tries to move the conversation forward by bringing together a host of scholars who offer an interdisciplinary approach to the contemporary dialectic between happiness and unhappiness.
    5. This book enlarges the unhappy archives.

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Product Details
Routledge
1000998207 / 9781000998207
eBook (EPUB)
22/12/2023
England
English
256 pages
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