More Than Just a Hill of Beans
Contested Landscapes in John Nichols'The Milagro Beanfield War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3852266 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graeme Finnie (Andrews University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-67 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/147757011x12983070064917 |
| OpenAlex | W2091516145 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
The American Southwest is often considered to be a harsh and unforgiving environment, yet it remains an area where indigenous communities have lived for centuries and since being opened up as a tourist destination in the late nineteenth century has witnessed an incredible growth of major urban conurbations. It is a fragile environment coming under increasing pressure and nowhere is this more apparent than in the competition for scarce water resources. Water issues remain high on the political agenda and the threat to small scale acequia farming is under intense pressure from larger agribusiness. This essay, which adopts an ecocritical perspective, revisits John Nichols' 1974 novel The Milagro Beanfield War , analysing his literary strategies as he explores the ramifications of differing interpretations of land use on the contested landscapes of New Mexico
Archaeology · Ecocriticism · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · American Environmental and Regional History · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · History · Law · Modern American Literature Studies · Ecology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |