Wild, weird, West : essays on arid America /
"A wide-ranging collection of essays on multiple aspects of the Southwestern American deserts"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lubbock, Texas :
Texas Tech University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Desert humanities
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Table of Contents:
- Into the American desert
- The desert sacred
- Sacred desert, profane desert, gendered desert in the American imaginary
- French travelers in the arid Southwest
- The desert gendered and erotic
- Making the desert American
- Fruit out of rock
- Knowing the desert
- The deserts of Los Angeles. Two topographies
- Knowing by naming
- The American desert elsewhere
- The flying saucers have landed
- Naked on the deserts of Mars
- Writing and re-writing the American desert.