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Dirty wars: landscape, power, and waste in Western American literature

Drawing on research and site visits to the US conducted over ten years, Dirty Wars pushes analysis of American literature beyond the sub-divisions of US identity politics, expanding the range of interdisciplinary perspectives within which Western US literature can be understood. The book includes detailed textual analysis of over twenty primary texts from many genres and draws extensively upon, among other disciplines, social and economic history, political theory, philosophy, environmental studies, ethnic studies, critical military studies, and cultural geography. The book develops a complex historical and theoretical thesis regarding the literary response to the production of ‘wasted’ places and populations.