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The Birth of the World as We Know It, Or, Teiresias

A Novel

By: Meredith Steinbach

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The Birth of the World as We Know It, Or, Teiresias

A Novel

By: Meredith Steinbach

In her fourth book of fiction, award-winning American novelist Meredith Steinbach reimagines the life of the Greek seer Teiresias. At the center of Steinbach's comic novel is an exploration of the meaning of time and the nature of identity. Having outlived everyone he ever knew, Teiresias looks back at the most significant episodes in his life - a visit to the Delphic oracle; mediating arguments between Zeus and Hera; his experiences as both man and woman, sighted and blind, prophet and slave - as he confronts the traveler Odysseus in the Underworld.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810150603

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9780810150607

Zara

By: Meredith Steinbach

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Zara

By: Meredith Steinbach

Meredith Steinbach's moving first novel tells the story of a strong yet vulnerable woman's attempts to reconcile her varying roles as daughter, wife, and doctor. Zara centers on Zara Montgomery's troubled relationships with three powerful forces in her life: her taciturn physician father; her mother, dying of cancer; and her attractive but unstable husband. In prose both sharp and spare, Steinbach paints a deeply perceptive portrait of a remarkable young woman.

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292

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Northwestern University Press

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081015059X

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9780810150591

The Birth of the World as We Know It, Or, Teiresias

A Novel

By: Meredith Steinbach

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A Novel

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Green Lands for White Men

Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid

By: Meredith McKittrick

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Green Lands for White Men

Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid

By: Meredith McKittrick

How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers’ visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, while nineteenth-century missionaries and explorers had found riverbeds, seashells, and other evidence of a verdant past deep in the Kalahari Desert. Government experts insisted, however, that the rains weren’t disappearing; the land, long susceptible to periodic drought, had been further degraded by settler farmers’ agricultural practices—an explanation that white South Africans rejected. So when the geologist Ernest Schwarz blamed the land itself, the farmers listened. Schwarz held that erosion and topography had created arid conditions, that rainfall was declining, and that agriculture was not to blame. As a solution, he proposed diverting two rivers to the Kalahari’s basins, creating a lush country where white South Africans could thrive. This plan, which became known as the Kalahari Thirstland Redemption Scheme, was rejected by most scientists. But it found support among white South Africans who worried that struggling farmers undermined an image of racial superiority. Green Lands for White Men explores how white agriculturalists in southern Africa grappled with a parched and changing terrain as they sought to consolidate control over a Black population. Meredith McKittrick’s timely history of the Redemption Scheme reveals the environment to have been central to South African understandings of race. While Schwarz’s plan was never implemented, it enjoyed sufficient support to prompt government research into its feasibility, and years of debate. McKittrick shows how white farmers rallied around a plan that represented their interests over those of the South African state and delves into the reasons behind this schism between expert opinion and public perception. This backlash against the predominant scientific view, McKittrick argues, displayed the depth of popular mistrust in an expanding scientific elite. A detailed look at the intersection of a settler society, climate change, white nationalism, and expert credibility, Green Lands for White Men examines the reverberations of a scheme that ultimately failed but influenced ideas about race and the environment in South Africa for decades to come.

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330

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University of Chicago Press

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0226834689

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9780226834689

Zara

By: Meredith Steinbach

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Zara

By: Meredith Steinbach

Zara Montgomery becomes dissatisfied with her life and regrets her decision to give up a promising medical career to marry a doctor

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Ecco

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0880010010

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9780880010016

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The Birth of the World as We Know It, Or, Teiresias

The Birth of the World as We Know It, Or, Teiresias

Zara

Zara

The Birth of the World as We Know It, Or, Teiresias

The Birth of the World as We Know It, Or, Teiresias

Green Lands for White Men

Green Lands for White Men

Zara

Zara

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