Reading Aridity in Western American Literature

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Reading Aridity in Western American Literature is written by Jada Ach and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1978778287 (ISBN 10) and 9781978778283 (ISBN 13).

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.