The shade of the saguaro : : essays on the literary cultures of the American Southwest = La sombra del saguaro : ensayos sobre las culturas literarias del suroeste norteamericano / / edited by Gaetano Prampolini and Annamaria Pinazzi.

• Superior document: Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna ; 18
• TeilnehmendeR: Prampolini, Gaetano,; Pinazzi, Annamaria, editor.
• Place / Publishing House: Firenze : : Firenze University Press,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English; Spanish
• Series: Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna ; 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (542 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

This volume springs from that fruitful project of scientific cooperation between the humanities departments of Università di Firenze and University of Arizona which was the Forum for the Study of the Literary Cultures of the Southwest (2000-2007). Tri-cultural, at least (Native, Hispanic and Anglo-American), and multi-lingual, today’s Southwest presents a complex coexistence of different cultures, the equal of which would be hard to find elsewhere in the United States. Of this virtually inexhaustible object of study, the essays here collected tackle an ample range of themes. While the majority of them are concerned with the literatures of the Southwest, still a good third falls into the fields of history, art history, ethnography, sociology or cultural studies.