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.
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.
Southwest, New--Politics and government. Southwest, New--In literature.