02235nam 2200505 450 991079343320332120230426180015.01-4962-1601-6(CKB)4100000008095697(MiAaPQ)EBC5756003(OCoLC)1099254484(MdBmJHUP)muse72203(Au-PeEL)EBL5756003(EXLCZ)99410000000809569720190511d2019 ub 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWeak nationalisms affect and nonfiction in postwar America /Douglas DowlandLincoln :University of Nebraska Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (288 pages)1-4962-0050-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.American literatureHistory and criticismNationalism in literatureNational characteristics, American, in literatureSynecdocheAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Nationalism in literature.National characteristics, American, in literature.Synecdoche.810.93581Dowland Douglas1471185MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793433203321Weak nationalisms3683380UNINA