TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Reading America : citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature
T2  - Studies in print culture and the history of the book
A1  - Matthews, Kristin L., 1973- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
YR  - 2016
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.3088439
AB  - "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"--
SN  - 9781625342355 nidottu
SN  - 9781625342348 sidottu
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - American literature : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Books and reading : Social aspects : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Literature and society : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Cold War in literature.
KW  - Politics and literature.
KW  - Identity (Psychology) in literature.
KW  - Citizenship in literature.
KW  - Democracy in literature.
KW  - American literature.
KW  - Books and reading : Social aspects.
KW  - Cold War (1945-1989) in literature.
KW  - Literature and society.
KW  - United States.
ER  -