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1 online resource (256 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
New American Canon
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New American canon.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Culture and Cold Conflict -- Steven Belletto and Daniel Grausam; Part I: Rethinking Domestic Cultures; 1. Total Literary Awareness: Why Cold War Hooverism Pre-Read Afro-Modernist Writing -- William J. Maxwell; 2. Reviewing Cold War Culture with Edwin Denby -- Catherine Gunther Kodat; 3. Democracy, Decentralization, and Feedback -- Daniel Belgrad; Part II: Domestic Cultures/Global Frames; 4. The New Frontier: Dune, the Middle Class, and Post-1960 U.S. Foreign Policy -- Andrew Hoberek. |
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5. Cold War Intimacies: Joan Didion and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason -- Karen SteigmanPart III: The Global Cold War; 6. Pyongyang Lost: Counterintelligence and Other Fictions of the Forgotten War -- Christine Hong; 7. The Race War Within: The Biopolitics of the Long Cold War -- Leerom Medovoi; 8. The Empire Strikes Out: Star Wars (IV, V, and VI) and the Advent of Reaganism -- Alan Nadel; Bibliography; Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
The time is right for a critical reassessment of Cold War culture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture confuse rather than clarify. A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about the period, American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War reveals a broad range of ways that American cultural production from the late 1940s to the present might be understood in relation to the Cold War. Critically engaging the reigning paradigms that. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cold War in literature.
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Cold War (1945-1989) in literature. |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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20th century |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Added Author |
Grausam, Daniel, 1975-
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Belletto, Steven.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781609381134 1609381130 (DLC) 2012006953 |
| ISBN |
9781609381448 |
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1609381440 |
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9781609381134 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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1609381130 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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