Weak nationalisms : affect and nonfiction in postwar America /

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"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 nationa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dowland, Douglas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Nationalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Synecdoche.
Nationalisme dans la littérature.
Synecdoque.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
National characteristics, American, in literature
Nationalism in literature
Synecdoche
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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