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.
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.
Jada Ach is a lecturer for the leadership and integrative studies program at Arizona State University. Gary Reger is Hobart professor of classical languages at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
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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 Chapte
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 Chapte
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