Dirty Wars : Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature.

By: Beck, JohnMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Postwestern HorizonsPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (378 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780803226692Subject(s): American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism | Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century | War and literature | West (U.S.) -- In literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dirty Wars : Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American LiteratureDDC classification: 810.9/35878 LOC classification: PS271 -- .B43 2009ebOnline resources: Click to View
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.
Summary: 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.".
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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.

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.".

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