Reading Aridity in Western American Literature Hardback
Edited by Jada Ach, Gary Reger
Part of the Ecocritical Theory and Practice series
Hardback
Description
Deserts are highly emblematic spaces: dry, barren, isolated.
In literary and cinematic representations, they often betoken collapse and dystopia.
Reading Aridity in Western American Literature offer readings of literature set in the US Southwest from ecocritical and new materialist perspectives.
The volume explores the diverse epistemologies, histories, relationships, futures, and possibilities that emerge from the representation of American deserts in fiction, film, and literary art.
The authors, as well, trace the social, cultural, economic, and biotic narratives that foreground deserts, and how these underscore the challenges of climate change, ecojustice, and human and non-human flourishing.
As such, the volume rethinks what deserts are and provides a constructive lens for seeing deserts as more than blank spaces, rather as ecogeographies that challenge, critique, and urge collective ecojustice action.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:308 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:15/12/2020
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- ISBN:9781793622013
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:308 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:15/12/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781793622013
