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Cassuto, David N., 1963-

Dripping dry : literature, politics, and water in the desert Southwest / David N. Cassuto. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001. - viii, 206 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. - Studies in literature and science .

Revision of the author's thesis, Indiana University.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.

The birth of the hydraulic conflict -- River wars : Los Angeles, the Owens Valley, and Mary Austin's The ford -- Turning wine into water : water's crucial absence in The grapes of wrath -- Waging water : hydrology versus mythology in The monkey wrench gang -- The environmental system : animal dreams and the rhetoric of environment -- Imaging sustainability.

ISBN: 0472097563 (alk. paper) 0472067567 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 00010715

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American literature--History and criticism.--Southwest, New
Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Southwest, New.
Water supply--Political aspects--Southwest, New.
Politics and literature--Southwest, New.
Water supply--Southwest, New.
Water--Southwest, New.
Deserts in literature.
Water in literature.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Southwest, New--Politics and government.
Southwest, New--In literature.

LC Class. No.: PS277 / .C37 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/358