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
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: November 2008 Annotation: A bioregional consideration of writings from America's desert places |
Additional Information |
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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