The (Un)happiness of Urban Indigeneity in Tommy Orange’s There There
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F24%3A00135269" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/24:00135269 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.routledge.com/Unhappy-Beginnings-Narratives-of-Precarity-Failure-and-Resistance-in/Gonzalez-Diaz-Oran-Llarena/p/book/9781032526591" target="_blank" >https://www.routledge.com/Unhappy-Beginnings-Narratives-of-Precarity-Failure-and-Resistance-in/Gonzalez-Diaz-Oran-Llarena/p/book/9781032526591</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003407744-7" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003407744-7</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The (Un)happiness of Urban Indigeneity in Tommy Orange’s There There
Original language description
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.
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
—
Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Unhappy Beginnings : Narratives of Precarity, Failure, and Resistance in North American Texts
ISBN
9781032526591
Number of pages of the result
14
Pages from-to
74-87
Number of pages of the book
206
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
UT code for WoS chapter
—