Douglas Dowland

Weak Nationalisms (eBook, PDF)

Affect and Nonfiction in Postwar America

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Produktbeschreibung

The question "What is America?" has taken on new urgency. Weak Nationalisms explores the emotional dynamics behind that question by examining how a range of authors have attempted to answer it through nonfiction since the Second World War, revealing the complex and dynamic ways in which affects shape the literary construction of everyday experience in the United States. Douglas Dowland studies these attempts to define the nation in an eclectic selection of texts from writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, John Steinbeck, Charles Kuralt, Jane Smiley, and Sarah Vowell. Each of these texts makes use of synecdoche, and Weak Nationalisms shows how this rhetorical technique is variously driven by affects including curiosity, discontent, hopefulness, and incredulity. In exploring the function of synecdoche in the creative construction of the United States, Dowland draws attention to the evocative politics and literary richness of nationalism and connects critical...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496216014
• Artikelnr.: 72418338

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