| Description |
1 online resource (247 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Postwestern horizons
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Postwestern horizons.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Summary |
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 |
| Contents |
Title Pages; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "FAILING ECONOMIES AND TORTURED ECOLOGIES"; 2. TOXIC METROPOLIS; 3. RIDDING THE WORLD OF WASTE; 4. "AN EERIE LIQUID ELASTICITY"; 5. "OUTCASTS AND DREAMERS IN THE CITIES"; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Cover; Index; |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Minority authors. |
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Pollution in literature.
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Pollution in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
2000 - 2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780803230460 |
| ISBN |
9780803244887 |
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0803244886 |
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080323046X |
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9780803230460 |
| Standard No. |
9786613863270 |
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