Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins : Waste and Contamination in Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures.
Material type: TextSeries: Postwestern horizonsPublication details: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780803244887
- 0803244886
- American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
- Pollution in literature
- Roman américain -- 21e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Roman américain -- Auteurs issus des minorités -- Histoire et critique
- Pollution dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Hispanic American
- American fiction
- American fiction -- Minority authors
- Pollution in literature
- Minderheitenliteratur
- Roman
- Stadt Motiv
- Umweltverschmutzung Motiv
- USA
- 2000-2099
- 810.93556
- PS374.P625 G36 2012
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In this innovative study, Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins, John Blair Gamber examines urbanity and the results of urban living-traffic, garbage, sewage, waste, and pollution-arguing for a new recognition of all forms of human detritus as part of the natural world and thus for a broadening of our understanding of environmental literature. While much of the discourse surrounding the United States' idealistic and nostalgic views of itself privileges "clean" living (primarily in rural, small-town, and suburban settings), representations of rurality and urbanity by Chicanas/Chicanos, Afric.
Title Pages; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "FAILING ECONOMIES AND TORTURED ECOLOGIES"; 2. TOXIC METROPOLIS; 3. RIDDING THE WORLD OF WASTE; 4. "AN EERIE LIQUID ELASTICITY"; 5. "OUTCASTS AND DREAMERS IN THE CITIES"; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Cover; Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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