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008 090616s2009 nbu b 001 0 eng
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040 $aDLC$cDLC
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050 00 $aPS271$b.B43 2009
082 00 $a810.9/35878$222
100 1 $aBeck, John,$d1963-
245 10 $aDirty wars: landscape, power, and waste in western American literature /$cJohn Beck.
260 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$c2009.
263 $a0912
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aPostwestern horizons
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: dirty wars -- The purloined landscape -- The prehistory of the permanent war economy -- Dust breeding: narratives of inter(n)ment -- Learning from los Alamos -- Gridlocked and homeless -- Loomings: dread in west Texas -- After nature: gothic contamination -- After nature writing -- The west as Cold War museum -- The fringe of empire -- Conclusion: endless war.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xIn literature.
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPolitics and culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWar and literature.