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9780896726383

Xerophilia

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  • ISBN13:

    9780896726383

  • ISBN10:

    089672638X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-11-30
  • Publisher: 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 bioregionsp. 3
Acequia culture : watershed consciousness and environmental justice in literature of the Upper Rio Grande bioregionp. 41
Border(home)lands : bioregional readings in border literaturep. 91
Dignifying the overlooked : invertebrates in Southwestern literaturep. 140
Re-sensing place : ecological aesthetics, embodied experience, and environmental literaturep. 177
Saving Tortugas Arroyo : are words enough?p. 227
Notesp. 233
Works citedp. 241
Indexp. 253
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