Reading Aridity in Western American Literature
Author: Jada Ach
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-12-14
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1793622027
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.