Storied Deserts
Reimagining Global Arid Lands
Herausgeber: Tynan, Aidan; Osuna, Celina
Storied Deserts
Reimagining Global Arid Lands
Herausgeber: Tynan, Aidan; Osuna, Celina
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Storied Deserts makes a crucial and critical intervention in the field of environmental humanities by showcasing an emerging body of research on desert places from around the world. It is an important and engaging collection for scholars and students across disciplines that helps establish the value of desert humanities.
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Storied Deserts makes a crucial and critical intervention in the field of environmental humanities by showcasing an emerging body of research on desert places from around the world. It is an important and engaging collection for scholars and students across disciplines that helps establish the value of desert humanities.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 250
- Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
- Gewicht: 453g
- ISBN-13: 9781032501819
- ISBN-10: 1032501812
- Artikelnr.: 70288853
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 250
- Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
- Gewicht: 453g
- ISBN-13: 9781032501819
- ISBN-10: 1032501812
- Artikelnr.: 70288853
Celina Osuna is a scholar and an artist. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, and her research, with an emphasis on Indigenous and Latinx Environmentalisms, explores aesthetics of desert places in literature, art, and film and their impacts on cultural imagination and geopolitical relationships to land. Her monograph, Desert Distortion, is forthcoming with Texas Tech University Press. Aidan Tynan is Senior Lecturer in English literature at Cardiff University. He is the author of two monographs, Deleuze's Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms (2012) and The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics (2020). He has published two edited volumes, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature (2015) and Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money (2017).
Introduction Part One: Elemental Narratives 1. A Duel in the Sand: On
Cinematic Spectacle in Arid Lands 2. The Dark, Dead Corners of the Earth:
The Imaginary of the Antarctic as "Deserta" 3. Deserts of Doom, Spaces of
Potential: Representations of the Desert in the Australian Imagination 4.
"Blinded by the Light": Exploring the Desert as Luminous Landscape Part
Two: Poetics of Aridity 5. Revisiting Palai: Imaginings of Arid Lands in
Tamil Literary and Cultural Texts 6. Yawp from Atop the Desert Sand: The
Poetics of Existentialism in J¿hiliya Poetry and Beyond 7. Exploring "y
Paith": Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Desert Environments in
Patagonia, Argentina 8. Parched Poetics: Disarticulations from a Desert
Part Three: Land: Politics of Belonging 9. Combatting Desertification and
Narrating Environmental Crisis in the United Nations 10.The Atacama Desert:
Environmental Imagery from Presumably Void Geographies Between the Andes
Mountains and the Pacific Ocean Cliffs 11. From Handback to Landback:
Lessons from Uluru 12. Borderlands Ecologies: Informed Imaginaries in
Signs Preceding the End of the World and Encantado 13. "Palmas Ultimas,"
"Desert Surroundings," and "Sonora, Mexico"
Cinematic Spectacle in Arid Lands 2. The Dark, Dead Corners of the Earth:
The Imaginary of the Antarctic as "Deserta" 3. Deserts of Doom, Spaces of
Potential: Representations of the Desert in the Australian Imagination 4.
"Blinded by the Light": Exploring the Desert as Luminous Landscape Part
Two: Poetics of Aridity 5. Revisiting Palai: Imaginings of Arid Lands in
Tamil Literary and Cultural Texts 6. Yawp from Atop the Desert Sand: The
Poetics of Existentialism in J¿hiliya Poetry and Beyond 7. Exploring "y
Paith": Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Desert Environments in
Patagonia, Argentina 8. Parched Poetics: Disarticulations from a Desert
Part Three: Land: Politics of Belonging 9. Combatting Desertification and
Narrating Environmental Crisis in the United Nations 10.The Atacama Desert:
Environmental Imagery from Presumably Void Geographies Between the Andes
Mountains and the Pacific Ocean Cliffs 11. From Handback to Landback:
Lessons from Uluru 12. Borderlands Ecologies: Informed Imaginaries in
Signs Preceding the End of the World and Encantado 13. "Palmas Ultimas,"
"Desert Surroundings," and "Sonora, Mexico"
Introduction Part One: Elemental Narratives 1. A Duel in the Sand: On
Cinematic Spectacle in Arid Lands 2. The Dark, Dead Corners of the Earth:
The Imaginary of the Antarctic as "Deserta" 3. Deserts of Doom, Spaces of
Potential: Representations of the Desert in the Australian Imagination 4.
"Blinded by the Light": Exploring the Desert as Luminous Landscape Part
Two: Poetics of Aridity 5. Revisiting Palai: Imaginings of Arid Lands in
Tamil Literary and Cultural Texts 6. Yawp from Atop the Desert Sand: The
Poetics of Existentialism in J¿hiliya Poetry and Beyond 7. Exploring "y
Paith": Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Desert Environments in
Patagonia, Argentina 8. Parched Poetics: Disarticulations from a Desert
Part Three: Land: Politics of Belonging 9. Combatting Desertification and
Narrating Environmental Crisis in the United Nations 10.The Atacama Desert:
Environmental Imagery from Presumably Void Geographies Between the Andes
Mountains and the Pacific Ocean Cliffs 11. From Handback to Landback:
Lessons from Uluru 12. Borderlands Ecologies: Informed Imaginaries in
Signs Preceding the End of the World and Encantado 13. "Palmas Ultimas,"
"Desert Surroundings," and "Sonora, Mexico"
Cinematic Spectacle in Arid Lands 2. The Dark, Dead Corners of the Earth:
The Imaginary of the Antarctic as "Deserta" 3. Deserts of Doom, Spaces of
Potential: Representations of the Desert in the Australian Imagination 4.
"Blinded by the Light": Exploring the Desert as Luminous Landscape Part
Two: Poetics of Aridity 5. Revisiting Palai: Imaginings of Arid Lands in
Tamil Literary and Cultural Texts 6. Yawp from Atop the Desert Sand: The
Poetics of Existentialism in J¿hiliya Poetry and Beyond 7. Exploring "y
Paith": Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Desert Environments in
Patagonia, Argentina 8. Parched Poetics: Disarticulations from a Desert
Part Three: Land: Politics of Belonging 9. Combatting Desertification and
Narrating Environmental Crisis in the United Nations 10.The Atacama Desert:
Environmental Imagery from Presumably Void Geographies Between the Andes
Mountains and the Pacific Ocean Cliffs 11. From Handback to Landback:
Lessons from Uluru 12. Borderlands Ecologies: Informed Imaginaries in
Signs Preceding the End of the World and Encantado 13. "Palmas Ultimas,"
"Desert Surroundings," and "Sonora, Mexico"