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Weak nationalisms : affect and nonfiction in postwar America / Douglas Dowland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dowland, Douglas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Nationalism in literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Synecdoche.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Weak Nationalisms employs affect theory as well as traditional close reading techniques to explore the ways a range of writers negotiate nationalistic feeling that embraces core tenets of American liberalism while resisting and questioning the hierarchies that are often associated with nationalism"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: affected readers in an imagined community
- Moodiness: the everyday America of Beauvoir's America day by day
- Curiosity and its discontents: Steinbeck's Travels with Charley and America and Americans
- Hopefulness: on the road with Charles Kuralt
- Incredulity: reading Sarah Vowell
- Conclusion: affected critics, the nation, and the limits of critique.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4962-1601-6
- OCLC:
- 1099254484
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