Dirty wars [electronic resource] : landscape, power, and waste in western American literature / John Beck.
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TextSeries: Postwestern horizonsPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.Description: 366 pSubject(s): - 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
- 810.9/35878 22
- PS271 .B43 2009
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| Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : dirty wars -- The purloined landscape -- The prehistory of the permanent war economy -- Dust breeding : narratives of inter(n)ment -- Learning from Los Alamos -- Gridlocked and homeless -- Loomings : dread in west Texas -- After nature : gothic contamination -- After nature writing -- The west as Cold War museum -- The fringe of empire -- Conclusion : endless war.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.