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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816170403321

Autore

Dowland Douglas

Titolo

Weak nationalisms : affect and nonfiction in postwar America / / Douglas Dowland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-4962-1601-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 pages)

Disciplina

810.93581

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

Nationalism in literature

National characteristics, American, in literature

Synecdoche

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--