American literature and culture in an age of cold war : a critical reassessment / / edited by Steven Belletto and Daniel Grausam
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| Titolo: |
American literature and culture in an age of cold war : a critical reassessment / / edited by Steven Belletto and Daniel Grausam
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/3582825 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Cold War in literature | |
| Altri autori: |
BellettoSteven
GrausamDaniel <1975->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | American literature and culture in an age of cold war |
| ISBN: | 1-60938-144-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823343303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New American Canon