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 ; 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (358 p.)
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Participants: Gersdorf, Catrin. [ ]; ProQuest (Firm) [ ]; ProQuest (Firm) [ TeilnehmendeR ]
Published: c2009.
Superior document: Spatial practices, an interdisciplinary series in cultural history, geography, literature, 6
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