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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Matthews, Kristin L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2017.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: "There is Much to be Gained by Our Reading"; 1. America Reads: Literacy and Cold War Nationalism; 2. Reading for Character, Community, and Country: J.D. Salinger's the Catcher in the Rye; 3. Reading to Outmaneuver: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and African American Literacy in Cold War America; 4. Reading against the Machine: Oedipa Maas and the Quest for Democracy in Thomas Pynchon's the Crying of Lot 49; 5. Metafiction and Radical Democracy: Getting at the Heart of John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse
  • 6. Confronting Difference, Confronting Difficulty: Culture Wars, Canon Wars, and Maxine Hong Kingston's the Woman WarriorConclusion: "Reading Makes a Country Great"; Notes; Index; Back Cover