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Author Dowland, Douglas, author.

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

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

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Summary "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Synecdoche.
Synecdoche.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Dowland, Douglas. Weak nationalisms. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019] 9781496200501 (DLC) 2018046954 (OCoLC)1064247291
ISBN 9781496216014 (electronic book)
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