The poetics and politics of the desert :: landscape and the construction of America /

This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonic...

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1. Verfasser: Gersdorf, Catrin
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2009.
Schriftenreihe:Spatial practices ; 6.
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Zusammenfassung:This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonical American landscapes. Drawing on the critical concepts of American studies and on questions and problems raised in recent debates on ecocriticism, The Poetics and Politics of the Desert investigates the spatial rhetoric of America as it developed in view of arid landscapes since the mid-nineteenth.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-350) and index.
ISBN:9781435695139
1435695135
9042024968
9789042024960
9789401206570
9401206570
ISSN:1871-689X ;

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