Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins - Waste and Contamination in Contemporary U.s. Ethnic Literatures

Informationen zum Autor John Blair Gamber is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the coeditor of Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits. Klappentext John Blair Gamber is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the coeditor of Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Failing Economies and Tortured Ecologies": Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents 2. Toxic Metropolis: Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues 3. Ridding the World of Waste: Louise Erdich's The Antelope Wife 4. "An Eerie Liquid Elasticity": Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange 5. "Outcasts and Dreamers in the Cities": Gerald Vizenor's Dead Voices Epilogue Notes Works Cited

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John Blair Gamber, GAMBER JOHN BLAIR
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.10.2012
• EAN: 9780803230460
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-3046-0
• Seiten: 248
• Serien: Postwestern Horizons; Postwestern Horizons
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft