TY - BOOK AU - Gamber,John Blair ED - Project Muse. TI - Positive pollutions and cultural toxins: waste and contamination in contemporary U.S. ethnic literatures T2 - Postwestern Horizons series SN - 9780803244887 AV - PS374.P625 G36 2012 U1 - 810.9/3556 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - Pollution in literature KW - American fiction KW - Minority authors KW - History and criticism KW - 21st century KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780803244887/ ER -