Xerophilia
by Lynch, Tom; Slovic, ScottFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-11-30
Publisher(s): Texas Tech Univ Pr
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Summary
"The arid American Southwest is host to numerous organisms described as desert-loving, or zerophilous. Extending this class to include the region's writers and the works that mirror their love of desert places, Tom Lynch presents the first systematically ecocritical study of its multicultural literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Author Biography
Tom Lynch is associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Table of Contents
| The Southwest : from region to bioregions | p. 3 |
| Acequia culture : watershed consciousness and environmental justice in literature of the Upper Rio Grande bioregion | p. 41 |
| Border(home)lands : bioregional readings in border literature | p. 91 |
| Dignifying the overlooked : invertebrates in Southwestern literature | p. 140 |
| Re-sensing place : ecological aesthetics, embodied experience, and environmental literature | p. 177 |
| Saving Tortugas Arroyo : are words enough? | p. 227 |
| Notes | p. 233 |
| Works cited | p. 241 |
| Index | p. 253 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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