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Positive pollutions and cultural toxins : waste and contamination in contemporary U.S. ethnic literatures /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gamber, John Blair
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
Series:Postwestern Horizons series
Subjects:
Pollution in literature.
American fiction > Minority authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • "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.