Positive pollutions and cultural toxins [[electronic resource] ] : waste and contamination in contemporary U.S. ethnic literatures / / John Blair Gamber
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Gamber John Blair
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| Titolo: |
Positive pollutions and cultural toxins [[electronic resource] ] : waste and contamination in contemporary U.S. ethnic literatures / / John Blair Gamber
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| Pubblicazione: | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/3556 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
| American fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism | |
| Pollution in literature | |
| 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>. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Positive pollutions and cultural toxins |
| ISBN: | 1-283-55082-2 |
| 9786613863270 | |
| 0-8032-4488-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809367103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Postwestern Horizons