LEADER 04051nam 2200661 450 001 9910794768503321 005 20230126223224.0 010 $a1-61376-469-3 035 $a(CKB)4330000000525599 035 $a(OCoLC)1007993449 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse60413 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5599560 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5599560 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11637846 035 $a(OCoLC)1076807926 035 $a(EXLCZ)994330000000525599 100 $a20161013h20162016 ub| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aReading America $ecitizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature /$fKristin L. Matthews 210 1$aAmherst :$cUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (pages cm) 225 1 $aPrint culture and the history of the book 311 $a1-62534-234-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- 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". 330 $a"During the Cold War, the editor of Time magazine declared, "A good citizen is a good reader." As postwar euphoria faded, a wide variety of Americans turned to reading to understand their place in the changing world. Yet, what did it mean to be a good reader? And how did reading make you a good citizen? In Reading America, Kristin L. Matthews puts into conversation a range of political, educational, popular, and touchstone literary texts to demonstrate how Americans from across the political spectrum--including "great works" proponents, New Critics, civil rights leaders, postmodern theorists, neoconservatives, and multiculturalists--celebrated particular texts and advocated particular interpretive methods as they worked to make their vision of "America" a reality. She situates the fiction of J. D. Salinger, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, and Maxine Hong Kingston within these debates, illustrating how Cold War literature was not just an object of but also a vested participant in postwar efforts to define good reading and citizenship" --$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aStudies in print culture and the history of the book. 517 3 $aCitizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBooks and reading$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCold War in literature 606 $aPolitics and literature 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 606 $aCitizenship in literature 606 $aDemocracy in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBooks and reading$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aCold War in literature. 615 0$aPolitics and literature. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aCitizenship in literature. 615 0$aDemocracy in literature. 676 $a810.9/0054 700 $aMatthews$b Kristin L.$f1973-$01502881 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794768503321 996 $aReading America$93730955 997 $aUNINA