Weak Nationalisms: Affect and Nonfiction in Postwar America
- ISBN-10
- 1496200500
- ISBN-13
- 9781496200501
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-07
- Publisher
- U of Nebraska Press
- Author
- Douglas Dowland
Description
"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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