The Night of and the Mourning After: Truth and Transference in the Election of Donald Trump

被引：3

作者：

Bochner, Arthur P. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ S Florida, Commun, Tampa, FL USA

来源：

QUALITATIVE INQUIRY | 2018年 / 24卷 / 05期

关键词：

autoethnography; ethnography; authenticity; truth; Trump;

D O I：

10.1177/1077800417745428

中图分类号：

C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

The writer presents an autoethnographic account of the night of the 2016 presidential election and the days and months that followed. Tormented by the prospect of Donald Trump's election, he expresses the feelings of gloom and doom that permeate the academic convention he is attending as he and colleagues from around the country respond to the menacing prospect of a Donald Trump presidency. Invited to speak at a postelection riff, he contemplates the ways in which Trump served as an ideal transference object for many White working-class people, providing a kind of heroic self-validation they lack. In the concluding sections of the article, he focuses on the question of Trump's heralded authenticity during the campaign and the tyrannical threat posed by Trump's failure to care about truth.

引用

页码：309 / 317

页数：9