{"product_id":"horizons-of-catastrophe-in-the-american-west-paperback","title":"Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam R. Handley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHorizons of Catastrophe in the American West\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to discussions in the environmental humanities and western U.S. studies about how we read past cultural history in the light of our determined yet unknown future under climate catastrophe. Examining an eclectic but interrelated and interdisciplinary range of photographs, films, and novels of the West; Western historiography; geological science; Tony Kushner's \u003ci\u003eAngels in America\u003c\/i\u003e; the Los Angeles freeway system and the city's layered temporalities; and the long poem form among contemporary Indigenous poets, William R. Handley argues that artists within mostly twentieth-century settler cultures saw on past horizons of the West premonitions of catastrophe--without, of course, knowing what their civilization was doing to the atmosphere and what that portended for the planet's future. The possibilities and limits of their artistic forms, Handley shows us, offer a way for us to find hope in the wreckage of the past and to forge a future grounded in environmental realism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam R. Handley\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMarriage, Violence, and Nation in the American Literary West\u003c\/i\u003e, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTrue West: Authenticity and the American West\u003c\/i\u003e (Bison Books, 2007), and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon\u003c\/i\u003e (Bison Books, 2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45664460767334,"sku":"9781496246103","price":57.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/yl_0-DM5VN9781496246103.webp?v=1779882621","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/horizons-of-catastrophe-in-the-american-west-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}