Weak Nationalisms

Klappentext Douglas Dowland is an associate professor of English at Ohio Northern University. Zusammenfassung Explores the complex and dynamic ways in which emotions shape the post-World War II writing of the United States and argues that reading these narratives for their affects is to read for the emotional work that takes place between the part and the whole.

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

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"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"--

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Explores the complex and dynamic ways in which emotions shape the post-World War II writing of the United States and argues that reading these narratives for their affects is to read for the emotional work that takes place between the part and the whole.

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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