{"product_id":"reading-aridity-in-western-american-literature-9781793622013","title":"Reading Aridity in Western American Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeserts 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: Desertification by Tom Lynch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Dry Time by Jada Ach and Gary Reger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Eco-Identities and Environmental Belonging in Arid America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Imagined Deserts, Planned Communities, and Escape Pods in the American West by Amy T. Hamilton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Aridity, Individualism, and Paradox in Elmer Kelton’s The Time it Never Rained by Quinn Grover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Desert Haunting: A Gothic Reading of Arturo Islas’ The Rain God by Cordelia Barrera\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Desert Remains: Roads, Dams, and Discarded Pianos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Desert Roads, “Construction Men,” and Infrastructural Impulses in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House by Jada Ach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: “It was the river”: Indigenous Anti-Dam Literature of the Great American Desert by Holly Jean Richard and Paul Formisano\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: The Desert as Dumping Ground in Popular Imagination by Jennifer Dawes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Envisioning the Desert from Outside the West\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Trinitite, Turquoise, and Rattlesnakes: Envisioning the (De)Nuclearized Desert in the Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Kyoko Hayashi by Kyoko Matsunaga\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Color, Place, and Memory in Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes by Celina Osuna\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: French Travelers in the Arid Southwest by Gary Reger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Desert Dwelling by Ron Broglio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042646327639,"sku":"9781793622013","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793622013.jpg?v=1750954994","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-aridity-in-western-american-literature-9781793622013","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}