Positive pollutions and cultural toxins
Subtitle: waste and contamination in contemporary U.S. ethnic literatures
By: John Blair Gamber
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803230460
Subjects: American fiction; History and criticism; Minority authors; Pollution in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "Failing economies and tortured ecologies": Octavia Butler's Parable of the sower and Parable of the talents; title: Toxic metropolis: Alejandro Morales's The rag doll plagues; title: Ridding the world of waste: Louise Erdich's The antelope wife; title: "An eerie liquid elasticity": Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange; title: "Outcasts and dreamers in the cities": Gerald Vizenor's Dead voices; title: Epilogue.