{"product_id":"dirty-wars-landscape-power-and-waste-in-western-american-literature-hardback-9780803226319","title":"Dirty Wars; Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature (Hardback) 9780803226319","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDirty Wars\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLandscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Beck (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780803226319\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 December 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e378 pages, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.71 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This meticulous, well-informed study should prove valuable to multiple fields, including American and western American literatures, American studies, and ecocriticism.\"—S. K. Bernardin, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDirty Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is a profoundly ambitious book showcasing John Beck's considerable scholarly and critical abilities.\"—Bill D. Toth, \u003ci\u003eWestern American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDirty Wars \u003c\/i\u003eshould be of interest to readers in a variety of specialties, not only contemporary American literature but also environmental history, military history, Western history, cultural studies, and, of course, American studies.\"—Michael L. Johnson, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSince World War II, the American West has become the nation’s military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, \u003ci\u003eDirty Wars\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the region’s iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, have obscured the West’s crucial role in a post–World War II age of “permanent war.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn readings of western—particularly southwestern—literature, John Beck provides a historically informed account of how the military-industrial economy, established to protect the United States after Pearl Harbor, has instead produced western waste lands and “waste populations” as the enemies and collateral casualties of a permanent state of emergency. Beck offers new readings of writers such as Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, Don DeLillo, Rebecca Solnit, Julie Otsuka, and Terry Tempest Williams. He also draws on a variety of sources in history, political theory, philosophy, environmental studies, and other fields. Throughout \u003ci\u003eDirty Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, he identifies resonances between different experiences and representations of the West that allow us to think about internment policies, the manufacture of atomic weapons, the culture of Cold War security, border policing, and toxic pollution as part of a broader program of a sustained and invasive management of western space.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction: Dirty Wars\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. The Purloined Landscape\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. The Prehistory of the Permanent War Economy\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Dust Breeding: Narratives of Inter(n)ment\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Learning from Los Alamos\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5. Gridlocked and Homeless\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6. Loomings: Dread in West Texas\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e7. After Nature: Gothic Contamination\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e8. After Nature Writing\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e9. The West as Cold War Museum\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e10. The Fringe of Empire\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eConclusion: Endless War\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNotes\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551695696152,"sku":"9780803226319","price":37.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dirty-wars-landscape-power-and-waste-in-western-american-literature-hardback-9780803226319","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}