Reading America : Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Matthews, Kristin L., 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and literature.
Literature and society.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Democracy in literature.
Cold War (1945-1989) in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
Books and reading > Social aspects.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Livres et lecture > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre froide dans la litterature.
Politique et litterature.
Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Books and reading > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Cold War in literature.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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."

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