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Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwest Literature
Contributor(s): Lynch, Tom (Author)

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ISBN: 089672638X     ISBN-13: 9780896726383
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: November 2008
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Annotation: A bioregional consideration of writings from America's desert places
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
- Nature | Ecology
- Nature | Essays
Dewey: 810.997
LCCN: 2008022938
Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.36" W x 8.27" L (1.12 lbs) 282 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 273
Foreword 08/19/2009
 
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Publisher Description:
The arid American Southwest is host to numerous organisms described as desert-loving, or xerophilous. Extending this term 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. By revaluing nature and by shifting literary analysis from an anthropocentric focus to an ecocentric one, Xerophilia demonstrates how a bioregional orientation opens new ways of thinking about the relationship between literature and place. Applying such diverse approaches as environmental justice theory, phenomenology, border studies, ethnography, entomology, conservation biology, environmental history, and ecoaesthetics, Lynch demonstrates how a rooted literature can be symbiotic with the world that enables and sustains it. Analyzing works in a variety of genres by writers such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, Ray Gonzales, Charles Bowden, Susan Tweit, Gary Paul Nabhan, Pat Mora, Ann Zwinger, and Janice Emily Bowers, this study reveals how southwestern writers, in their powerful role as community storytellers, contribute to a sustainable bioregional culture that persuades inhabitants to live imaginatively, intellectually, and morally in the arid bioregions of the American Southwest.
 
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