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Positive pollutions and cultural toxins : waste and contamination in contemporary U.S. ethnic literatures / John Blair Gamber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gamber, John Blair.
- Series:
- Postwestern Horizons
- Postwestern Horizons series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Minority authors--History and criticism.
- Pollution in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- John Blair Gamber is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the coeditor of <i>Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits</i>.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613863270
- 9781283550826
- 1283550822
- 9780803244887
- 0803244886
- OCLC:
- 809977175
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