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PublisherTexas Tech University Press
ISBN-10089672638X
ISBN-139780896726383
eBay Product ID (ePID)22038556649
Product Key Features
Number of Pages282 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameXerophilia : Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature
Publication Year2008
SubjectSubjects & Themes / Nature, Ecology, American / General, Essays
TypeTextbook
AuthorTom Lynch
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Nature
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2008-022938
Dewey Edition22
Reviews'Xerophilia' is not an unnatural affection for copy machines. Bioregionalist ecocritic Tom Lynch uses the word to indicate an embrace of deserts -- their biotic elements and their inhabitants. Lynch plumbs a sampling of fiction and nonfiction, inviting inhabitants of verdant places to see the exotic differences of arid lands rather than thinking in simplistic terms of culturally-tinted deficits. --Todd Mercer, ForeWord, Nov./Dec., 2008 ""This highly readable volume of literary criticism is based on the hope that literature can help foster sustainable ways of living in the American Southwest... The book makes a strong case for literature's role in achieving sustainable practices without overstating it. Autobiographical reflections, narrative sections, and the inclusion of photographs taken by the author confirm Lynch's own xerophilia, a condition that readers might find themselves catching."" --The Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 29/Issue 2, Mar/Apr 2009
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal810.9/979
SynopsisExamines works by such writers as Leslie Marmon Silko, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, and others in the first systematically ecocritical study of multicultural literature of the American Southwest., The arid American Southwest is host to numerous organisms described as desert-loving, or xerophilous. Extending this term to include the region's writers and the works that mirror their love of desert places, Tom Lynch presents the first systematically ecocritical study of its multicultural literature. By revaluing nature and by shifting literary analysis from an anthropocentric focus to an ecocentric one, Xerophilia demonstrates how a bioregional orientation opens new ways of thinking about the relationship between literature and place. Applying such diverse approaches as environmental justice theory, phenomenology, border studies, ethnography, entomology, conservation biology, environmental history, and ecoaesthetics, Lynch demonstrates how a rooted literature can be symbiotic with the world that enables and sustains it. Analyzing works in a variety of genres by writers such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, Ray Gonzales, Charles Bowden, Susan Tweit, Gary Paul Nabhan, Pat Mora, Ann Zwinger, and Janice Emily Bowers, this study reveals how southwestern writers, in their powerful role as community storytellers, contribute to a sustainable bioregional culture that persuades inhabitants to live imaginatively, intellectually, and morally in the arid bioregions of the American Southwest.
LC Classification NumberPS169.E25L96 2008
