TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cassuto,David N.
TI  - Dripping dry: literature, politics, and water in the desert Southwest 
SN  - 0472097563 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS277 .C37 2001
U1  - 810.9/358 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - Southwest, New
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - Homes and haunts
KW  - Water supply
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Water
KW  - Deserts in literature
KW  - Water in literature
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - In literature
N1  - 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
ER  -