The poetics and politics of the desert : landscape and the construction of America / / Catrin Gersdorf.
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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Superior document: | Spatial practices, an interdisciplinary series in cultural history, geography, literature, 6 |
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Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Spatial practices ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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