02610nam 2200625Ia 450 991078561980332120231119225358.01-283-55082-297866138632700-8032-4488-6(CKB)2670000000234136(EBL)999200(OCoLC)809977175(SSID)ssj0000711714(PQKBManifestationID)11417268(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711714(PQKBWorkID)10722528(PQKB)11638381(MiAaPQ)EBC999200(MdBmJHUP)muse19588(Au-PeEL)EBL999200(CaPaEBR)ebr10590742(CaONFJC)MIL386327(EXLCZ)99267000000023413620120314d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPositive pollutions and cultural toxins[electronic resource] waste and contamination in contemporary U.S. ethnic literatures /John Blair GamberLincoln University of Nebraska Press20121 online resource (247 p.)Postwestern Horizons seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8032-3046-X Includes bibliographical references and index."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.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>.Postwestern HorizonsAmerican fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fictionMinority authorsHistory and criticismPollution in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionMinority authorsHistory and criticism.Pollution in literature.810.9/3556Gamber John Blair1503205MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785619803321Positive pollutions and cultural toxins3731434UNINA