03399nam 2200601Ia 450 991046187980332120200520144314.01-60938-144-0(CKB)2670000000273998(EBL)1037833(OCoLC)812570850(SSID)ssj0000751875(PQKBManifestationID)11420480(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000751875(PQKBWorkID)10772963(PQKB)10360189(MiAaPQ)EBC1037833(MdBmJHUP)muse18861(Au-PeEL)EBL1037833(CaPaEBR)ebr10610297(EXLCZ)99267000000027399820120302d2012 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAmerican literature and culture in an age of cold war[electronic resource] a critical reassessment /edited by Steven Belletto and Daniel GrausamIowa City University of Iowa Press20121 online resource (250 p.)New American CanonDescription based upon print version of record.1-60938-113-0 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 Hoberek5. 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; IndexThe 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 1940's to the present might be understood in relation to the Cold War. Critically engaging the reigning paradigmsNew American CanonAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismCold War in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Cold War in literature.810.9/3582825Belletto Steven963570Grausam Daniel1975-950788MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461879803321American literature and culture in an age of cold war2184812UNINA