Dripping dry : literature, politics, and water in the desert Southwest / David N. Cassuto.
Series: Studies in literature and sciencePublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.Description: viii, 206 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0472097563 (alk. paper)
- 0472067567 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- American literature -- Southwest, New -- History and criticism
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southwest, New
- Water supply -- Political aspects -- Southwest, New
- Politics and literature -- Southwest, New
- Southwest, New -- Politics and government
- Southwest, New -- In literature
- Water supply -- Southwest, New
- Water -- Southwest, New
- Deserts in literature
- Water in literature
- 810.9/358 21
- PS277 .C37 2001
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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.