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The poetics and politics of the desert : landscape and the construction of America /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gersdorf, Catrin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2009.
Colección:Spatial practices ; 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Mapping the (critical) territory
  • Garden
  • Orient
  • Wilderness
  • Heterotopia.