Dirty wars: landscape, power, and waste in western American literature
By: John Beck.
Series: Postwestern horizons
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803226319
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: dirty wars; title: The purloined landscape; title: The prehistory of the permanent war economy; title: Dust breeding: narratives of inter(n)ment; title: Learning from los Alamos; title: Gridlocked and homeless; title: Loomings: dread in west Texas; title: After nature: gothic contamination; title: After nature writing; title: The west as Cold War museum; title: The fringe of empire; title: Conclusion: endless war.