Reading Aridity in Western American Literature (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Release date:	December 2020
Editors:	Jada Ach • Gary Reger
Contributors:	Jada Ach • Cordelia Barrera • Ron Broglio • Jennifer Dawes • Paul Formisano • Quinn Grover • Amy T Hamilton • Zachary R. Hernandez
Dimensions:	231 x 161 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	308
ISBN-13:	978-1-79362-201-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Physical geography > Arid zones, deserts
LSN:	1-79362-201-9
Barcode:	9781793622013

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