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UNINA9910790948003321 |
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Autore |
Solnit Rebecca |
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Titolo |
Savage dreams : a journey into the landscape wars of the American West / / Rebecca Solnit |
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Berkeley, California ; ; Los Angeles, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Edizione |
[Twentieth anniversary edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (439 p.) |
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Landscapes - West (U.S.) - History |
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) |
West (U.S.) Description and travel |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- PREFACE TO THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION -- Acknowledgments -- From Hell to Breakfast -- Like Moths to a Candle -- April Fool's Day -- Trees -- Lise Meitner's Walking Shoes -- Golden Hours and Iron County -- Ruby Valley and the Ranch -- The War -- Keeping Pace with the Tortoise -- The Rainbow -- Spectators -- Framing the View -- Vanishing (Remaining) -- Fire in the Garden -- The Name of the Snake -- Up the River of Mercy -- Savage's Grave -- Full Circle -- Afterword to the 1999 Edition -- Sources -- Index |
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"A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."-Larry McMurtryIn 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later-in 1951-and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin. In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its implementation as politics. In a new preface, she considers the continuities and changes of |
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these invisible wars in the context of our current climate change crisis, and reveals how the long arm of these histories continue to inspire her writing and hope. |
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Record Nr. |
UNINA9910790902803321 |
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Autore |
Boisseron Bénédicte |
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Titolo |
Creole renegades : rhetoric of betrayal and guilt in the Caribbean diaspora / / Bénédicte Boisseron |
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Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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0-8130-5020-0 |
0-8130-4891-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Creoles - Caribbean Area |
Creole literature - North America |
West Indians - Migrations |
Ethnicity - Caribbean Area |
Caribbean Area Emigration and immigration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: The second-generation Caribbean diaspora -- Anatole Broyard: Racial betrayal and the art of being Creole -- Maryse Conde's Histoire de la femme cannibale: coming out in the French Antilles -- Edwidge Danticat and Dany LaFerriere: Parasitic and remittance diaspora -- V. S. Naipaul and Jamaica Kincaid: Rhetoric of national dis-allegiance -- Creole versus Bossale Renegade: "Turfism" in the black diaspora of the Americas. |
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This book investigates the exilic literature of Caribbean-born and Caribbean-descent writers who, from their new location in Northern America, question their cultural roots and search for a creative autonomy. |
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