| Reading Aridity in Western American Literature Contributor(s): Ach, Jada (Editor), Reger, Gary (Editor), Ach, Jada (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1793622019 ISBN-13: 9781793622013 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $131.67 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Nature - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Deserts - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| LCCN: 2020039546 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.38 lbs) 308 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In literary and cinematic representations, deserts often betoken collapse and dystopia. Reading Aridity in Western American Literature offers readings of literature set in the American Southwest from ecocritical and new materialist perspectives. This book explores the diverse epistemologies, histories, relationships, futures, and possibilities that emerge from the representation of American deserts in fiction, film, and literary art, and traces the social, cultural, economic, and biotic narratives that foreground deserts, prompting us to reconsider new, provocative modes of human/nonhuman engagement in arid ecogeographies. |