Weak nationalisms : affect and nonfiction in postwar America /
"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 nationa...
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2019]
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Table of 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.