Positive pollutions and cultural toxins [electronic resource] : waste and contamination in contemporary U.S. ethnic literatures / John Blair Gamber.
Material type: TextSeries: Postwestern Horizons series | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)ISBN:- 9780803244887
- 0803244886
- 810.9/3556 23
- PS374.P625 G36 2012
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.
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