LEADER 03399nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910461879803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-60938-144-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000273998 035 $a(EBL)1037833 035 $a(OCoLC)812570850 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000751875 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11420480 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000751875 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10772963 035 $a(PQKB)10360189 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1037833 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18861 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1037833 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10610297 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000273998 100 $a20120302d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAmerican literature and culture in an age of cold war$b[electronic resource] $ea critical reassessment /$fedited by Steven Belletto and Daniel Grausam 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 225 1 $aNew American Canon 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60938-113-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a5. 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 330 $aThe time is right for a critical reassessment of Cold War culture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture confuse rather than clarify. A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about the period, American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War reveals a broad range of ways that American cultural production from the late 1940's to the present might be understood in relation to the Cold War. Critically engaging the reigning paradigms 410 0$aNew American Canon 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCold War in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCold War in literature. 676 $a810.9/3582825 701 $aBelletto$b Steven$0963570 701 $aGrausam$b Daniel$f1975-$0950788 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461879803321 996 $aAmerican literature and culture in an age of cold war$92184812 997 $aUNINA