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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

Cold War in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism.

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"Demands placed on many young Americans as a result of the Cold War give rise to an increasingly age-segregated society. This separation allowed adolescents and young adults to begin to formulate an identity distinct from previous generations, and was a significant factor in their widespread rejection of contemporary American society. This study traces the emergence of a distinctive post-war family dynamic between parent and adolescent or already adult child. In-depth readings of individual writers such as, Arthur Miller, William Styron, J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Flannery O'Connor and Sylvia Plath, situate their work in relation to the Cold War and suggest how the figuring of adolescents and young people reflected and contributed to an empowerment of American youth. This book is a superb research tool for any student or academic with an interest in youth culture, cultural studies, American studies, cold war studies, twentieth-century American literature, history of the family, and age studies."--

American literature --- Cold War in literature. --- Youth in literature. --- Youth --- History and criticism. --- History

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"John le Carré and the Cold War explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré 's major Cold-War novels. The first in-depth study of le Carré this century, this book analyses his work in light of key topics in 20th-century history, including containment of Communism, decolonization, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban missile crisis, the Cambridge spy-ring, the Vietnam War, the 70s oil crisis and Thatcherism. Examining The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), Smiley's People (1979) and other novels, this book offers an illuminating picture of Cold-War Britain, while situating le Carr 's work alongside that of George Orwell, Graham Greene and Ian Fleming. Providing a valuable contribution to contemporary understandings of both British spy fiction and post-war fiction, Toby Manning challenges the critical consensus to reveal a considerably less radical writer than is conventionally presented."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Cold War in literature. --- Espionage in literature. --- Le Carré, John, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Compelling analyses of the function and representation of Nature in a wide range of Cold War fiction and poetry.

Nature in literature --- American literature --- Cold War in literature. --- Ecocriticism. --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism --- Nature in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Nature in literature.

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"With the opening of the secret police archives in many countries in Eastern Europe comes the unique chance to excavate many forgotten spy stories and narrate them for the first time. 'Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe' brings together a wide range of Cold War spy stories from the Eastern Bloc and explores stories compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files"--

Cold War in motion pictures. --- Cold War in literature. --- Espionage in motion pictures. --- Espionage in literature. --- Cold War. --- Spies --- Spies --- Espionage --- Espionage --- History --- History. --- History --- Europe, Eastern --- History