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...Daniel Grausam The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State . By Melley Timothy . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press , 2012 . x , 289 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $26.95 . No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives...

...Christian Moraru Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire . By Maus Derek C. . Columbia : Univ. of South Carolina Press . 2011 . xvi, 247 pp. $49.95 . On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War . By Grausam Daniel...

...Joseph Darda The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South Side . By Kate A. Baldwin . Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2016 . xviii, 236 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper, $45.00 ; e-book, $39.99 . Reading America: Citizenship...

...Alan Nadel In conjunction, these two authors exemplify how the differend operates, Park with the nuance and precision that allows the concept to interrogate fruitfully issues of racial and national identity within the dynamics of the Cold War. Her readings are thoughtful and keenly focused...

...Martin Joseph Ponce © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Queering Cold War Poetry: Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States . By Eric Keenaghan. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2009. x, 196 pp. $39.95. Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous...

... . By Elizabeth Young. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2008. xii, 307 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $23.00. Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America . By Matthew J. Costello. New York: Continuum. 2009. viii, 293 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $24.95. Book Reviews Shades...

... of the Early Cold War . By Arthur Redding. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2008. xi, 183 pp. $50.00. Book Reviews National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of His- tory in Japan, France, and the United States. By Christopher L. Hill. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ...

...Patricia E. Chu Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South . By Leslie Bow. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2010. x, 285 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War . By Jodi Kim. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota...

...Richard Jean So So’s essay reconstructs a literary genealogy for the emergence of “information warfare” in the early Cold War period (the 1950s). Specifically, it argues that this form of warfare—which So dubs “literary information warfare”—took shape first and most keenly within the US state’s...

...Spencer Morrison Morrison’s essay calls for closer scholarly attention to Faulknerian geography in its historical specificity by demonstrating the effects of post-WWII urban crisis on Faulkner’s Cold War writing. To this end, the article reads Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun (1951) as not only...

... of the New West or Noreen Groover Lape’s West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western Frontiers. Betsy Klimasmith, University of Massachusetts at Boston Condensing the Cold War: ‘‘Reader’s Digest’’ and American Identity. By Joanne P. Sharp. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press...

...John Whalen-Bridge Duke University Press 2002 John Some Versions of the Cold War Whalen- Bridge Cold War Poetry. By Edward Brunner. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2001. xxi, 300 pp. $29.95. The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs...

... is in place: African American patriarchs have replaced white ones, leaving women, youth, and the light-skinned to find their own subversive voices. Jené Lee, Duke University Elizabeth Bishop’s World War II–Cold War...

... Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America. By Deborah Nelson. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2002. xxii, 209 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $17.50. Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative. By Patrick...

.... xxviii, 320 pp. $45.00. Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After. By Marcel Cornis-Pope. New York: Palgrave. 2001. xiii, 318 pp. $59.95. These three studies continue...

...’’ (232). Melody Graulich, Editor, Western American Literature Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961. By Christina Klein. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2003. xiv, 316 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $21.95. Embracing the East: White Women...

.... Guys like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics. By Michael Davidson. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. ix, 281 pp. Paper, $22.50. Most contemporary studies of American poetry situate one or two poets’ works in a historical context that is then mediated by a third thematic term...

... Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West. By Suzanne Clark. 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 204 of 232 Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 251 pp. $34.95. In this valuable if somewhat narrowly conceived book, Suzanne Clark...

...? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America . By Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar González. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 200. 234 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95. Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel . By Chip Rhodes. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. 190 pp. $34.95. Book...

...Steven Belletto From a Cold War literary and cultural studies perspective, the Korean War (1950–1953) is a distinctive moment in US cultural history. This essay proposes that there are two broad phases of Korean War literature: the first phase is work written in the 1950s and early 1960s generally...