Desert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts heroin addiction and each state's quest for

and each state's quest for legitimacy in the European Union

and its themes of sexual desire and the abuse of power

whose fates embody the forces tearing at the fabric of the nation

To be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost

offers an escape from the contemporary impasse between the “death of the subject” alleged by postmodernism and a return to a traditional “substantialist” notion of the subject

Desert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts heroin addiction and each state's quest forAuthor Contributor(s): Limerick, Patricia Nelson Publisher: UNM Press Date: 5 1 1985 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from many writers over the years.