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Reading America : Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature /
"During the Cold War, the editor of Time magazine declared, "A good citizen is a good reader." As postwar euphoria faded, a wide variety of Americans turned to reading to understand their place in the changing world. Yet, what did it mean to be a good reader? And how did reading make...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction: "there is much to be gained by our reading"
- America reads: literacy and Cold War nationalism
- Reading for character, community, and country: J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye
- Reading to outmaneuver: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and African American
- Literacy in Cold War America
- Reading against the machine: Oedipa Maas and the quest for democracy in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49
- Metafiction and radical democracy: getting at the heart of John Barth's Lost in the funhouse
- Confronting difference, confronting difficulty: culture wars, canon wars, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior
- Conclusion: "reading makes a country great."