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Cosmopolitan America: Affect, attention, and the nation in post-Cold War literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cosmopolitan America: Affect, attention, and the nation in post-Cold War literature./
Author:	Yost, Brian Armstrong.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2014,
Description:	273 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-06(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-06A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3667683
ISBN:	9781321419337

Cosmopolitan America: Affect, attention, and the nation in post-Cold War literature.
Yost, Brian Armstrong.

Cosmopolitan America: Affect, attention, and the nation in post-Cold War literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2014 - 273 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-06(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas A&M University, 2014.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

My dissertation makes two key interventions in the fields of cosmopolitanism and contemporary American literature. First, I define cosmopolitanism as a way of organizing sociality in terms of affect, through how individuals pay attention to the world. Interactions with people and texts evoke affects and socialization trains individuals how to respond to them through the formation of feelings for particular forms of community. Rather than a set of actually existing conditions or some common identity, cosmopolitanism, as a potential outcome for ongoing processes of socialization, is one means of politicizing affect within political institutions like the nation, which remain grounded in material conditions and particular identities. Cosmopolitanism is not some state of affairs that our actions or intentions bring into being; it remains abstract and outside the present in the form of appeals to a nostalgic past or utopian future. For example, nationalist literature deploys the idea of cosmopolitanism as a reality or possibility to reconsolidate the political effects of affect around the nation-state. Second, I argue that recent literature about America reconceptualizes the nation's cultural and political value through appeals to cosmopolitanism as if it were a set of conditions or common identity that readers can use to construct a positive self-identity. This rhetorical move justifies a simultaneous vision of expanding cultural, political, and economic influence that accompanies American texts' visions of America as the center of cosmopolitan humanitarian or ethical interventions. Literary appeals to America as the center of cosmopolitan solidarity manage the formation of the nation within global space by encouraging readers to feel positively for their global presence.

ISBN: 9781321419337Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

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