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

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. “FAILING ECONOMIES AND TORTURED ECOLOGIES” Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents 25 2. TOXIC METROPOLIS Alejandro Morales’s The Rag Doll Plagues 57 3. RIDDING THE WORLD OF WASTE Louise Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife 91 4. “AN EERIE LIQUID ELASTICITY” Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange 120 5. “OUTCASTS AND DREAMERS IN THE CITIES” Gerald Vizenor’s Dead Voices 155 Epilogue 183 Notes 187 Works Cited 213 Index 231 ...