{"product_id":"weak-nationalisms-9781496200501","title":"Weak Nationalisms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDowland shows us new ways to engage Americanist criticism and to understand and respond to the political extremes that threaten democracy in the United States today. Creative, insightful, and generous, \u003ci\u003eWeak Nationalisms\u003c\/i\u003e is important for critics and citizens who believe in the imaginative possibilities of reading as a means to positively attach to our world, even to our nationalisms.\"\" - Christopher Castiglia, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"In \u003ci\u003eWeak Nationalisms, \u003c\/i\u003eDouglas Dowland shows how largely a figure of speech - synecdoche - figures in the affective dimension of nationalism. . . . But where many studies of nationalism stress the obscured means through which these affective ties work, Dowland finds most interesting the `unmediated, tactile, sensuous engagement with the emotions' evident in the nonfiction works he considers. With its interest in the persistence of national affect, \u003ci\u003eWeak Nationalisms\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and important study.\"\" - Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English at Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"How have citizens of the United States historically understood their relationship to the nation? The answer \u003ci\u003eWeak Nationalisms\u003c\/i\u003e gives is both elegantly specific and broadly compelling. This book is smart and timely. It draws out some of the most pressing issues Americans are currently tangling with in everyday life. It is an engaging, well-executed, and important book.\"\" - Rachel Greenwald Smith, author of \u003ci\u003eAffect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"\u003ci\u003eWeak Nationalisms\u003c\/i\u003e makes visible a vibrant and underappreciated trajectory of literary nonfiction about the United States. Douglas Dowland effectively and persuasively presents the ways in which a range of writers negotiate a mode of nationalistic feeling that embraces core tenets of American liberalism, while resisting and questioning the hierarchies that we often associate with nationalism. The book offers a refreshing and timely reflection on the uses of `weak nationalism' in our time.\"\" - Daniel Worden, author of \u003ci\u003eMasculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Affected Readers in an Imagined Community\u003cbr\u003e  1. Moodiness: The Everyday America of Beauvoir’s \u003ci\u003eAmerica Day by Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  2. Curiosity and its Discontents: Steinbeck’s \u003ci\u003eTravels with Charley\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerica and Americans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  3. Hopefulness: \u003ci\u003eOn the Road with Charles Kuralt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  4. Incredulity: Reading Sarah Vowell\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Affected Critics: the Nation and the Limits of Critique\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409215693143,"sku":"9781496200501","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496200501.jpg?v=1730505980","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/weak-nationalisms-9781496200501","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}