Dreadful sorry : essays on an American nostalgia /
What does it mean to be nostalgic for the American past? The feeling has been co-opted by the far right and associated with white supremacy. In Dreadful sorry : essays on an American nostalgia, Jennifer Niesslein weaves together personal and structural questions of class, whiteness, history and fami...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cleveland, Ohio :
Belt Publishing,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | What does it mean to be nostalgic for the American past? The feeling has been co-opted by the far right and associated with white supremacy. In Dreadful sorry : essays on an American nostalgia, Jennifer Niesslein weaves together personal and structural questions of class, whiteness, history and family with a funny, earnest, folksy charisma. She explores her 'nostalgia problem' in essays that recount her thoughts upon rewatching Little women, her hand-to-mouth childhood, the effect being 'not the right kind of white' had on her Polish immigrant ancestors and her family's racism. |
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| Physical Description: | 162 pages ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1953368034 9781953368034 |