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UNINA9910461879803321 |
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Titolo |
American literature and culture in an age of cold war [[electronic resource] ] : a critical reassessment / / edited by Steven Belletto and Daniel Grausam |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BellettoSteven |
GrausamDaniel <1975-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Cold War in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
5. Cold War Intimacies: Joan Didion and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason - Karen Steigman Part 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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