Dirty wars [electronic resource] : landscape, power, and waste in western American literature / John Beck.
2009
PS271 .B43 2009eb
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Dirty wars [electronic resource] : landscape, power, and waste in western American literature / John Beck.
Author
Beck, John, 1963-
ISBN
9780803226319
0803226314
0803226314
Imprint
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (366 p.)
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PS271 .B43 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/35878
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Series
Postwestern horizons.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.