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Positive pollutions and cultural toxins

Gamber, John Blair.

Positive pollutions and cultural toxins waste and contamination in contemporary U.S. ethnic literatures / [electronic resource] : John Blair Gamber. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (248 p.) - Postwestern Horizons series . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references.

"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.

9780803244887 0803244886


Pollution in literature.
American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century


Electronic books.

PS374.P625 / G36 2012

810.9/3556