Douglas Dowland

Weak Nationalisms

Affect and Nonfiction in Postwar America

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781496200501
• ISBN-10: 1496200500
• Artikelnr.: 54619719

Autorenporträt

Douglas Dowland is an associate professor of English at Ohio Northern University.    

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Affected Readers in an Imagined Community
 1. Moodiness: The Everyday America of Beauvoir’s America Day by Day
 2. Curiosity and its Discontents: Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley and
America and Americans
 3. Hopefulness: On the Road with Charles Kuralt
 4. Incredulity: Reading Sarah Vowell
Conclusion: Affected Critics: the Nation and the Limits of Critique
Works Cited