Dirty Wars : Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature.
Title:
Dirty Wars : Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature.
Author:
Beck, John.
ISBN:
9780803226692
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (378 pages)
Series:
Postwestern Horizons
Contents:
Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dirty Wars -- 1. The Purloined Landscape -- 2. The Prehistory of the Permanent War Economy -- 3. Dust Breeding -- 4. Learning from Los Alamos -- 5. Gridlocked and Homeless -- 6. Loomings -- 7. After Nature -- 8. After Nature Writing -- 9. The West as Cold War Museum -- 10. The Fringe of Empire -- Conclusion: Endless War -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Since World War II, the American West has become the nation's military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the region's iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, have obscured the West's crucial role in a post-World War II age of "permanent war.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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