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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Gersdorf, Catrin. The poetics and politics of the desert [electronic resource] : landscape and the construction of America / Catrin Gersdorf. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, c2009. 1 online resource (358 p.) text txt computer c online resource cr Spatial practices, an interdisciplinary series in cultural history, geography, literature, 1871-689X ; 6 Description based upon print version of record. English Preliminary Material -- Mapping the (Critical) Territory -- Garden -- Orient -- Wilderness -- Heterotopia -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index. 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 canonical American landscapes. Drawing on the critical concepts of American studies and on questions and problems raised in recent debates on ecocriticism, The Poetics and Politics of the Desert investigates the spatial rhetoric of America as it developed in view of arid landscapes since the mid-nineteenth century. Gersdorf argues that the integration of the desert into America catered to the entire spectrum of ideological and political responses to the history and culture of the US, maintaining that the Americanization of this landscape was and continues to be staged within the idiomatic parameters and in reaction to the discursive authority of four spatial metaphors: garden, wilderness, Orient, and heterotopia. Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-350) and index. Cultural landscapes United States. Landscapes Symbolic aspects United States. National characteristics, American. United States Historical geography. 90-420-2496-8 Spatial practices ; 6. |
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