Xerophilia

"The arid American Southwest is host to numerous organisms described as desert-loving, or zerophilous. Extending this class to include the region's writers and the works that mirror their love of desert places, Tom Lynch presents the first systematically ecocritical study of its multicultural literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Tom Lynch is associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The Southwest : from region to bioregions	p. 3
Acequia culture : watershed consciousness and environmental justice in literature of the Upper Rio Grande bioregion	p. 41
Border(home)lands : bioregional readings in border literature	p. 91
Dignifying the overlooked : invertebrates in Southwestern literature	p. 140
Re-sensing place : ecological aesthetics, embodied experience, and environmental literature	p. 177
Saving Tortugas Arroyo : are words enough?	p. 227
Notes	p. 233
Works cited	p. 241
Index	p. 253
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