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Dirty wars : landscape, power, and waste in western American literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beck, John, 1963-
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2009]
Series:Postwestern horizons.
Subjects:
American literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Politics and culture > United States > History > 20th century.
War and literature.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : dirty wars
  • The purloined landscape
  • The prehistory of the permanent war economy
  • Dust breeding : narratives of inter(n)ment
  • Learning from Los Alamos
  • Gridlocked and homeless
  • Loomings : dread in west Texas
  • After nature : gothic contamination
  • After nature writing
  • The west as Cold War museum
  • The fringe of empire
  • Conclusion : endless war.