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American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2012.

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

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index