Positive pollutions and cultural toxins waste and contamination in contemporary U.S. ethnic literatures
"In this innovative study, Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins, John Blair Gamber examines urbanity and the results of urban living--traffic, garbage, sewage, waste, and pollution--arguing for a new recognition of all forms of human detritus as part of the natural world and thus for a broad...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press
2012.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Postwestern horizons. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30951197*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Failing economies and tortured ecologies": Octavia Butler's Parable of the sower and Parable of the talents
- Toxic metropolis: Alejandro Morales's The rag doll plagues
- Ridding the world of waste: Louise Erdich's The antelope wife
- "An eerie liquid elasticity": Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange
- "Outcasts and dreamers in the cities": Gerald Vizenor's Dead voices
- Epilogue.
