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

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gamber, John Blair
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Umweltverschmutzung > Motiv
Stadt > Motiv
Roman
Minderheitenliteratur
Pollution in literature.
American fiction > Minority authors.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Hispanic American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Pollution dans la litterature.
Roman americain > Auteurs issus des minorites > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American fiction > Minority authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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. While much of the discourse surrounding the United States' idealistic and nostalgic views of itself privileges "clean" living (primarily in rural, small-town, and suburban settings), representations of rurality and urbanity by Chicanas/Chicanos, Afric.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9780803244887

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