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Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins : Waste and Contamination in Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures

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...

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Autor principal: Gamber, John Blair
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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