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Dowland Douglas |
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Weak nationalisms : affect and nonfiction in postwar America / / Douglas Dowland |
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Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - History and criticism |
Nationalism in literature |
National characteristics, American, in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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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"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"-- |
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