Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins - 9780803230460

Positive Pollutions and Cultural ToxinsWaste and Contamination in Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures\nAuthor(s): John Blair Gamber\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803230460, 978-0803230460\nSynopsis\nIn this innovative study, Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins, John Blair Gamber examines urbanity and the results of urban livingtraffic, garbage, sewage, waste, and pollutionarguing 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 [url] 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, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans, on the other hand, complicate such generalization. Gamber wid.