Reading America : : citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature / / Kristin L. Matthews.
"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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| Superior document: | Print culture and the history of the book |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amherst : : University of Massachusetts Press,, [2016] 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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".