Weak nationalisms : affect and nonfiction in postwar America / / Douglas Dowland
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| Autore: |
Dowland Douglas
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| Titolo: |
Weak nationalisms : affect and nonfiction in postwar America / / Douglas Dowland
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| Pubblicazione: | Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2019] |
| ©2019 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 810.93581 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - History and criticism |
| Nationalism in literature | |
| National characteristics, American, in literature | |
| Synecdoche | |
| 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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Weak nationalisms |
| ISBN: | 1-4962-1601-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816170403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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