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Dirty wars, landscape, power, and waste in western American literature, John Beck

Label
Dirty wars, landscape, power, and waste in western American literature, John Beck
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Dirty wars
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
John Beck
Series statement
Postwestern horizons
Sub title
landscape, power, and waste in western American literature
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
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