Reading Aridity in Western American Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ach, Jada; Reger, Gary

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793622020
• Artikelnr.: 60572305

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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