How Long to Read Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins

How Long Does it Take to Read Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 15 minutes to read Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins by John Blair Gamber

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans, on the other hand, complicate such generalization. Gamber widens our understanding of current ecocritical debates by examining texts by such authors as Octavia Butler, Louise Erdrich, Alejandro Morales, Gerald Vizenor, and Karen Tei Yamashita that draw on the physical signs of human corporeality to refigure cities and urbanity as natural. He demonstrates how ethnic American literature reclaims waste objects and waste spaces—likening pollution to miscegenation—as a method to revalue cast-off and marginalized individuals and communities. Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins explores the conjunction of, and the frictions between, twentieth-century U.S. postcolonial studies, race studies, urban studies, and ecocriticism, and works to refigure this portrayal of urban spaces.

How long is Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins?

Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins by John Blair Gamber is 248 pages long, and a total of 63,984 words.

This makes it 84% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 49 minutes to read Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins aloud.

What Reading Level is Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins?

Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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