Reading America : citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature
著者
書誌事項
Reading America : citizenship, democracy, and Cold War literature
（Studies in print culture and the history of the book）
University of Massachusetts Press, c2016
- : hardcover
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全3件
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-195) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
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