landscape, power, and waste in western American literature /
John Beck
Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
c2009
366 p. ;
24 cm
Postwestern horizons
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
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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