Reading Aridity in Western American Literature
Herausgeber: Ach, Jada; Reger, Gary
Reading Aridity in Western American Literature
Herausgeber: Ach, Jada; Reger, Gary
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Reading Aridity in Western American Literature focuses on literature - fiction, film, non-fiction, and travel literature arid the American West. Treating "classic" authors, ignored works, and books and films by non-Americans, the volume employs ecocritical and/or new materialist approaches to provide a framework for illuminating the desert spaces.
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Reading Aridity in Western American Literature focuses on literature - fiction, film, non-fiction, and travel literature arid the American West. Treating "classic" authors, ignored works, and books and films by non-Americans, the volume employs ecocritical and/or new materialist approaches to provide a framework for illuminating the desert spaces.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Ecocritical Theory and Practice
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Seitenzahl: 310
- Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 658g
- ISBN-13: 9781793622013
- ISBN-10: 1793622019
- Artikelnr.: 60154443
- Ecocritical Theory and Practice
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Seitenzahl: 310
- Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 658g
- ISBN-13: 9781793622013
- ISBN-10: 1793622019
- Artikelnr.: 60154443
Edited by Jada Ach and Gary Reger - Contributions by Jada Ach; Cordelia Barrera; Ron Broglio; Jennifer Dawes; Paul Formisano; Quinn Grover; Amy T. Hamilton; Zachary R. Hernandez; Tom Lynch; Kyoko Matsunaga; Celina Osuna; Gary Reger and Holly Jean Richard
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Desertification by Tom Lynch
Introduction: The Dry Time by Jada Ach and Gary Reger
Part I: Eco-Identities and Environmental Belonging in Arid America
Chapter 1: Imagined Deserts, Planned Communities, and Escape Pods in the
American West by Amy T. Hamilton
Chapter 2: Aridity, Individualism, and Paradox in Elmer Kelton's The Time
it Never Rained by Quinn Grover
Chapter 3: Desert Haunting: A Gothic Reading of Arturo Islas' The Rain God
by Cordelia Barrera
Chapter 4: Imagining the Southwest in Willa Cather's Frontier Novels:
Settler Colonialism in The Song of the Lark, The Professor's House, and
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Zachary R. Hernandez
Part II: Desert Remains: Roads, Dams, and Discarded Pianos
Chapter 5: Desert Roads, "Construction Men," and Infrastructural Impulses
in Willa Cather's The Professor's House by Jada Ach
Chapter 6: "It was the river": Indigenous Anti-Dam Literature of the Great
American Desert by Holly Jean Richard and Paul Formisano
Chapter 7: The Desert as Dumping Ground in Popular Imagination by Jennifer
Dawes
Part III: Envisioning the Desert from Outside the West
Chapter 8: Trinitite, Turquoise, and Rattlesnakes: Envisioning the
(De)Nuclearized Desert in the Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Kyoko
Hayashi by Kyoko Matsunaga
Chapter 9: Color, Place, and Memory in Silko's Gardens in the Dunes by
Celina Osuna
Chapter 10: French Travelers in the Arid Southwest by Gary Reger
Conclusion: Desert Dwelling by Ron Broglio
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Desertification by Tom Lynch
Introduction: The Dry Time by Jada Ach and Gary Reger
Part I: Eco-Identities and Environmental Belonging in Arid America
Chapter 1: Imagined Deserts, Planned Communities, and Escape Pods in the
American West by Amy T. Hamilton
Chapter 2: Aridity, Individualism, and Paradox in Elmer Kelton's The Time
it Never Rained by Quinn Grover
Chapter 3: Desert Haunting: A Gothic Reading of Arturo Islas' The Rain God
by Cordelia Barrera
Chapter 4: Imagining the Southwest in Willa Cather's Frontier Novels:
Settler Colonialism in The Song of the Lark, The Professor's House, and
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Zachary R. Hernandez
Part II: Desert Remains: Roads, Dams, and Discarded Pianos
Chapter 5: Desert Roads, "Construction Men," and Infrastructural Impulses
in Willa Cather's The Professor's House by Jada Ach
Chapter 6: "It was the river": Indigenous Anti-Dam Literature of the Great
American Desert by Holly Jean Richard and Paul Formisano
Chapter 7: The Desert as Dumping Ground in Popular Imagination by Jennifer
Dawes
Part III: Envisioning the Desert from Outside the West
Chapter 8: Trinitite, Turquoise, and Rattlesnakes: Envisioning the
(De)Nuclearized Desert in the Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Kyoko
Hayashi by Kyoko Matsunaga
Chapter 9: Color, Place, and Memory in Silko's Gardens in the Dunes by
Celina Osuna
Chapter 10: French Travelers in the Arid Southwest by Gary Reger
Conclusion: Desert Dwelling by Ron Broglio
About the Contributors
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Desertification by Tom Lynch
Introduction: The Dry Time by Jada Ach and Gary Reger
Part I: Eco-Identities and Environmental Belonging in Arid America
Chapter 1: Imagined Deserts, Planned Communities, and Escape Pods in the
American West by Amy T. Hamilton
Chapter 2: Aridity, Individualism, and Paradox in Elmer Kelton's The Time
it Never Rained by Quinn Grover
Chapter 3: Desert Haunting: A Gothic Reading of Arturo Islas' The Rain God
by Cordelia Barrera
Chapter 4: Imagining the Southwest in Willa Cather's Frontier Novels:
Settler Colonialism in The Song of the Lark, The Professor's House, and
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Zachary R. Hernandez
Part II: Desert Remains: Roads, Dams, and Discarded Pianos
Chapter 5: Desert Roads, "Construction Men," and Infrastructural Impulses
in Willa Cather's The Professor's House by Jada Ach
Chapter 6: "It was the river": Indigenous Anti-Dam Literature of the Great
American Desert by Holly Jean Richard and Paul Formisano
Chapter 7: The Desert as Dumping Ground in Popular Imagination by Jennifer
Dawes
Part III: Envisioning the Desert from Outside the West
Chapter 8: Trinitite, Turquoise, and Rattlesnakes: Envisioning the
(De)Nuclearized Desert in the Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Kyoko
Hayashi by Kyoko Matsunaga
Chapter 9: Color, Place, and Memory in Silko's Gardens in the Dunes by
Celina Osuna
Chapter 10: French Travelers in the Arid Southwest by Gary Reger
Conclusion: Desert Dwelling by Ron Broglio
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Desertification by Tom Lynch
Introduction: The Dry Time by Jada Ach and Gary Reger
Part I: Eco-Identities and Environmental Belonging in Arid America
Chapter 1: Imagined Deserts, Planned Communities, and Escape Pods in the
American West by Amy T. Hamilton
Chapter 2: Aridity, Individualism, and Paradox in Elmer Kelton's The Time
it Never Rained by Quinn Grover
Chapter 3: Desert Haunting: A Gothic Reading of Arturo Islas' The Rain God
by Cordelia Barrera
Chapter 4: Imagining the Southwest in Willa Cather's Frontier Novels:
Settler Colonialism in The Song of the Lark, The Professor's House, and
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Zachary R. Hernandez
Part II: Desert Remains: Roads, Dams, and Discarded Pianos
Chapter 5: Desert Roads, "Construction Men," and Infrastructural Impulses
in Willa Cather's The Professor's House by Jada Ach
Chapter 6: "It was the river": Indigenous Anti-Dam Literature of the Great
American Desert by Holly Jean Richard and Paul Formisano
Chapter 7: The Desert as Dumping Ground in Popular Imagination by Jennifer
Dawes
Part III: Envisioning the Desert from Outside the West
Chapter 8: Trinitite, Turquoise, and Rattlesnakes: Envisioning the
(De)Nuclearized Desert in the Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Kyoko
Hayashi by Kyoko Matsunaga
Chapter 9: Color, Place, and Memory in Silko's Gardens in the Dunes by
Celina Osuna
Chapter 10: French Travelers in the Arid Southwest by Gary Reger
Conclusion: Desert Dwelling by Ron Broglio
About the Contributors
Index