Weak Nationalisms: Affect and Nonfiction in Postwar America

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 ...