We, Us, and Them : Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump / Douglas Dowland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dowland, Douglas, author.

Series:

Cultural frames, framing culture.

Cultural Frames, Framing Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2024]

Summary:

Attentive to the increasing "us" versus "them" rhetoric across the American political spectrum, We, Us, and Them explores how this rhetoric--and the emotional convictions underpinning it--has percolated in a wide variety of nonfiction writing on political topics from the 1960s onward.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Problem of Strong Nationalism

1 Hawkishness: John Steinbeck's Vietnam Journalism

2 Bile: Hunter S. Thompson's America

3 Futility: James Baldwin's The Evidence of Things Not Seen

4 Resentment: J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy

5 Depression: David Sedaris, Donald Trump, and the Divided Nation

Conclusion: The Nation Needs Reading

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Cultural Frames, Framing Culture.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813950853

0813950856