The poetics and politics of the desert : landscape and the construction of America /

This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as canonic...

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Main Author: Gersdorf, Catrin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2009.
Series:Spatial practices ; 6.
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Online Access:CONNECT