000936123 000__ 04095cam\a2200553\i\4500 000936123 001__ 936123 000936123 005__ 20210515194037.0 000936123 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000936123 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000936123 008__ 161013t20162016maua\\\\ob\\\s001\0\eng\d 000936123 020__ $$z9781625342355 000936123 020__ $$z9781625342348 000936123 020__ $$a9781613764695 $$q(electronic book) 000936123 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC5599560 000936123 035__ $$a(Au-PeEL)EBL5599560 000936123 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr11637846 000936123 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1076807926 000936123 040__ $$aMiAaPQ$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cMiAaPQ$$dMiAaPQ 000936123 043__ $$an-us--- 000936123 050_4 $$aPS3613.A8488$$bR43 2016 000936123 0820_ $$a810.9/0054$$223 000936123 1001_ $$aMatthews, Kristin L.,$$d1973-$$eauthor. 000936123 24510 $$aReading America :$$bcitizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature /$$cKristin L. Matthews. 000936123 24630 $$aCitizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature 000936123 264_1 $$aAmherst :$$bUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$$c[2016] 000936123 264_4 $$c©2016 000936123 300__ $$a1 online resource (226 pages) :$$billustrations. 000936123 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000936123 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000936123 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000936123 4901_ $$aPrint culture and the history of the book 000936123 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000936123 5050_ $$aPreface -- Introduction: "there is much to be gained by our reading" -- America reads: literacy and Cold War nationalism -- Reading for character, community, and country: J. D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye -- Reading to outmaneuver: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and African American -- Literacy in Cold War America -- Reading against the machine: Oedipa Maas and the quest for democracy in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 -- Metafiction and radical democracy: getting at the heart of John Barth's Lost in the funhouse -- Confronting difference, confronting difficulty: culture wars, canon wars, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior -- Conclusion: "reading makes a country great". 000936123 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000936123 520__ $$a"During the Cold War, the editor of Time magazine declared, "A good citizen is a good reader." As postwar euphoria faded, a wide variety of Americans turned to reading to understand their place in the changing world. Yet, what did it mean to be a good reader? And how did reading make you a good citizen? In Reading America, Kristin L. Matthews puts into conversation a range of political, educational, popular, and touchstone literary texts to demonstrate how Americans from across the political spectrum--including "great works" proponents, New Critics, civil rights leaders, postmodern theorists, neoconservatives, and multiculturalists--celebrated particular texts and advocated particular interpretive methods as they worked to make their vision of "America" a reality. She situates the fiction of J. D. Salinger, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, and Maxine Hong Kingston within these debates, illustrating how Cold War literature was not just an object of but also a vested participant in postwar efforts to define good reading and citizenship" --$$cProvided by publisher. 000936123 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000936123 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$y20th century$$xHistory and criticism. 000936123 650_0 $$aBooks and reading$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century. 000936123 650_0 $$aLiterature and society$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century. 000936123 650_0 $$aCold War in literature. 000936123 650_0 $$aPolitics and literature. 000936123 650_0 $$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 000936123 650_0 $$aCitizenship in literature. 000936123 650_0 $$aDemocracy in literature. 000936123 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMatthews, Kristin L.$$tReading America : citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature.$$dAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]$$z9781625342348 000936123 830_0 $$aStudies in print culture and the history of the book. 000936123 852__ $$bebk 000936123 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete $$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5599560$$zOnline Access 000936123 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:936123$$pGLOBAL_SET 000936123 980__ $$aEBOOK 000936123 980__ $$aBIB 000936123 982__ $$aEbook 000936123 983__ $$aOnline