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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462202903321

Autore

Gamber John Blair

Titolo

Positive pollutions and cultural toxins [[electronic resource] ] : waste and contamination in contemporary U.S. ethnic literatures / / John Blair Gamber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-55082-2

9786613863270

0-8032-4488-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Postwestern Horizons series

Disciplina

810.9/3556

Soggetti

American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

American fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism

Pollution in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.

Sommario/riassunto

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>. <DIV></DIV>