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03584aam a2200469 i 4500 001 CA8610FC00A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170304010220 008 161013s2016 maua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2016031023 020 $a 1625342349 020 $a 9781625342348 020 $a 1625342357 020 $a 9781625342355 035 $a (OCoLC)947146605 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YUS $d TXA $d GZM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3613 A8488 R43 2016 100 1 $a Matthews, Kristin L., $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a Reading America : $b citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature / $c Kristin L. Matthews. 246 30 $a Citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature 264 1 $a Amherst : $b University of Massachusetts Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xi, 207 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in print culture and the history of the book 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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 you a good citizen? In Reading America, Kristin L. Matthews puts into conversation a range of political, educational, popular, and touchstone literary texts to demonstrate how Americans from across the political spectrum--including "great works" proponents, New Critics, civil rights leaders, postmodern theorists, neoconservatives, and multiculturalists--celebrated particular texts and advocated particular interpretive methods as they worked to make their vision of "America" a reality. She situates the fiction of J.D. Salinger, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, and Maxine Hong Kingston within these debates, illustrating how Cold War literature was not just an object of but also a vested participant in postwar efforts to define good reading and citizenship"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a 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." 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Books and reading $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Cold War in literature. 650 0 $a Politics and literature. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) in literature. 650 0 $a Citizenship in literature. 650 0 $a Democracy in literature. 830 0 $a Studies in print culture and the history of the book. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018015426.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170706034532.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CA8610FC00A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search