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Dripping dry : literature, politics, and water in the desert Southwest
- Title
- Dripping dry : literature, politics, and water in the desert Southwest / David N. Cassuto.
- Author
- Cassuto, David N., 1963-
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 206 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in literature and science
- Subjects
- American literature > Southwest, New > History and criticism
- Water in literature
- Politics and literature > Southwest, New
- Southwest, New > Politics and government
- Water-supply > Political aspects > Southwest, New
- Southwest, New > In literature
- Water > Southwest, New
- Water-supply > Southwest, New
- Deserts in literature
- Note
- Revision of the author's thesis.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.
- Contents
- The birth of the hydraulic conflict -- River wars : Los Angeles, the Owens Valley, and Mary Austin's The ford -- Turning wine into water : water's crucial absence in The grapes of wrath -- Waging water : hydrology versus mythology in The monkey wrench gang -- The environmental system : Animal dreams and the rhetoric of environment -- Imaging sustainability.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-9704
- ISBN
- 0472097563 (alk. paper)
- 0472067567 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00010715
- OCLC
- 44868825
- Author
- Cassuto, David N., 1963-
- Title
- Dripping dry : literature, politics, and water in the desert Southwest / David N. Cassuto.
- Imprint
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.
- Series
- Studies in literature and science
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-9704