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Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump
Epub
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Artikel-Nr:
9780813950853
Veröffentl:
2024
Einband:
Epub
Seiten:
192
Autor:
Douglas Dowland
Serie:
Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable Epub
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Attentive to the increasing “us” versus “them” rhetoric across the American political spectrumWe, Us, and Them explores how this rhetoric—and the emotional convictions underpinning it—has percolated in a wide variety of nonfiction writing on political topics from the 1960s onward.
When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that Douglas Dowland asks inWe, Us, and Them. In search of answers, he turns to narratives of American nationhood written since the Vietnam War—stories in which the ostensibly strong state of the Union has been turned increasingly into an America of us versus them. Dowland explores how a range of writers across the political spectrum, including Hunter S. Thompson, James Baldwin, and J. D. Vance, articulate a particular vision of America with such strong conviction that they undermine the unity of the country they claim to extol.We, Us, and Them pinpoints instances in which criticism leads to cynicism, rage leads to apathy, and a broad vision narrows in our present moment.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Problem of Strong Nationalism
1. Hawkishness: John Steinbeck’s Vietnam Journalism
2. Bile: Hunter S. Thompson’s America
3. Futility: James Baldwin’sThe Evidence of Things Not Seen
4. Resentment: J. D. Vance’sHillbilly Elegy
5. Depression: David Sedaris, Donald Trump, and the Divided Nation
Conclusion: The Nation Needs Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: The Problem of Strong Nationalism
1. Hawkishness: John Steinbeck’s Vietnam Journalism
2. Bile: Hunter S. Thompson’s America
3. Futility: James Baldwin’sThe Evidence of Things Not Seen
4. Resentment: J. D. Vance’sHillbilly Elegy
5. Depression: David Sedaris, Donald Trump, and the Divided Nation
Conclusion: The Nation Needs Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Index