Dreadful Sorry: Essays on an American Nostalgia

by Jennifer Niesslein

Book Overview

Candid essays on personal and cultural American nostalgia, focusing on the author's working-class, Rust Belt family history.

What does it mean to be nostalgic for the American past? The feeling has been co-opted by the far right ("Make America Great Again," after all, is a plea for the past), and associated with violent periods of our country's history when white supremacy was even more dominant than today. Can a liberal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1953368034
• ISBN13: 9781953368034
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Belt Publishing
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.0"