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

C 2024

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

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina

Základní údaje

Originální název

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

Autoři

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina

Vydání

New York, Unhappy Beginnings : Narratives of Precarity, Failure, and Resistance in North American Texts, od s. 74-87, 14 s. Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture, 2024

Nakladatel

Routledge

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/24:00135269

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

978-1-032-52659-1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003407744-7

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85180039237

Klíčová slova anglicky

unhappy beginnings; Tommy Orange; There There; urban Indigeneity; Sarah Ahmed; settler-colonial killjoy

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 5. 3. 2025 09:56, Mgr. Pavla Martinková

Anotace

V originále

This chapter explores the relation between Indigeneity and (un)happiness by foregrounding contemporary representations of urban Indigeneity which challenge previous images of cityscapes as sites of unhappiness leading to annihilation of Indigenous identities. Sara Ahmed’s notions of the normative “happiness scripts” and subversive “unhappy archives” are evoked to argue that while settler colonialism works to preserve its functionality by maintaining certain colonial policies in relation to Indigenous populations, Indigenous storytelling often activates unhappy archives to problematize settler colonial happiness. Tommy Orange’s There There (2018) is used to demonstrate how Indigenous characters struggle with fulfilling the (un)happiness scripts of what contemporary Indigeneity should encompass. They fail or deliberately refuse to subscribe to the pervasive stereotypical images related to the colonial concept of “Indianness”, not only turning the unhappy urban space into a place of intertribal community and belonging, but also turning their unhappy beginnings into happy endings, even if through chaos and violence.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1328/2023, interní kód MU

Název: Jazyk, literatura a kultura v anglofonních kontextech I

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Jazyk, literatura a kultura v anglofonních kontextech I

Citovat

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. The (Un)happiness of Urban Indigeneity in Tommy Orange’s There There. In González-Díaz, Isabel; Orán-Llarena, Fabián. Unhappy Beginnings : Narratives of Precarity, Failure, and Resistance in North American Texts. New York: Routledge, 2024, s. 74-87. Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture. ISBN 978-1-032-52659-1. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003407744-7.

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HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. The (Un)happiness of Urban Indigeneity in Tommy Orange’s There There. In González-Díaz, Isabel; Orán-Llarena, Fabián. \textit{Unhappy Beginnings : Narratives of Precarity, Failure, and Resistance in North American Texts}. New York: Routledge, 2024, s.~74-87. Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture. ISBN~978-1-032-52659-1. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003407744-7.

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