Description: Examines works by such writers as Leslie Marmon Silko, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, and others in the first systematically ecocritical study of multicultural literature of the American Southwest.
Review Quotes: "With a provocative and engaging blend of personal narrative, literary criticism, and bioregional analysis, Lynch challenges his readers to develop new senses of desert places. Xerophilia promises to transform regional studies within and beyond the Southwest's customary borders." -- Audrey Goodman "author of Translating Southwestern Landscapes"