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...Stephanie LeMenager Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963 . By Kevin Starr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 564 pp. $34.95. Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature . By John Beck. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. 366 pp...

...Joni Adamson Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism . By Otto Eric C. . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2012 . x , 152 pp. Cloth , $44.95 ; CD , $14.95 . Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins: Waste and Contamination in US Ethnic...

... Univ. Press . 2014 . xii, 172 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper, $25.95 ; e-book, $25.95 . The Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith . By Schmidt Christopher . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2014 . xiv, 224 pp. Cloth , $95.00 ; e-book, $74.99...

... depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear waste commissioned by the Department of Energy to show that a risk-based realism is used to maintain the status quo of settler colonialism. It then turns to a countermodeling of the futures of nuclear waste by Leslie Marmon Silko...

... Davis’s 1861 novella Life in the Iron Mills presents an apposite case study for the constitutive relation of art and politics in the nineteenth-century American context. The text’s efforts culminate in its central figure: the korl woman statue carved by Hugh Wolf out of the waste material...

... and American travel writing. By the 1850s this animal's association with wasteful expenditure had begun to surface even in prominent American literature, including Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). He argues that the white whale operates in a manner that calls to mind the white elephant, and that this novel...

... LITERATURE / 75:3 / sheet 200 of 209 oblige. The Waste Fix: Seizures of the Sacred from Upton Sinclair to ‘‘The Sopranos By William G. Little. New York: Routledge. 2002. ix, 177 pp. $65.00. American culture...

... of his 1922 poem The Waste Land. The opening of The Waste Land can be (and was) plausibly read as exemplary of a modernist lit- erary aesthetic: April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.51...

... what communica- tions scholar Danielle Endres has described as the oft-­forgotten “front and back ends of nuclear power production,” namely, uranium mining and nuclear waste storage.38 They do not reject the biologically based arguments of earlier radiation films but augment them with broader...

... to ‘‘openly challenge the basic structure of patriarchal society 6 Eliza’s perfectly realized political imagination (rather than its failure, as Davidson sug- gests) culminates in her death and fetishization. The progressive wasting of Eliza’s body toward the end of The Co- quette and her corresponding...

... to that embodied in the American hero-engineer. Both figures promised to mobilize the laboring masses into a visionary and abstract structure 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 125 of238 of pure productivity, without waste. Theorists of fascist ideology, cul...

... of endless production, consumption, novelty, and waste. Like Halpern, Jaffe refuses a teleological narrative structure for his account of the way things go. This refusal of linear storytelling is, again, a performative enactment of the theory being established; in this case, that “stories about stuff...

...). This sets up an interesting set of problems around the uninteresting. “Such poetry often strikes readers as a waste of time—and that is precisely the point” (26). One might well adduce the much-publicized course offered by Professor Ken- neth Goldsmith titled “Wasting Time on the Internet...

... windows.15 Edith Wharton’s Lily has long been identified as an ambivalent inhabitant of the ‘‘commodity aesthetic which ‘‘regards acculturation as if it were a form of consumption and consumption, in turn, not as waste or use, but as deliberate and informed accumula- tion16 The commodity aesthetic...

... extinction as a planetary threat. In certain cases the link between deliberate hunting and species extinction is manifest, but less apparent are the more banal ways in which everyday patterns of consumption and waste drive the mass extinction now unfolding all around us. 3 While overfishing contributes...

... of this wasted landscape sym- bolically figure slavery’s desecration of human community, its sin writ large in the apocalypse of its soils. These accounts thus construe the South’s environmental crisis as crisis of moral sentiment: at the end of the day, it is not a depletion of nutrients but a scarcity...

... into the latter category, having long been denigrated for eating carrion, which was deemed to be unclean and gluttonous. But if the raven has been seen by biblical commentators as an illegible sign and as a consumer of waste, the raven’s eating habits are not in fact useless. Ravens feed on carcasses after...

..., then, that camp ‘‘is the re-creation of surplus value from forgotten forms of labor he touches on a polemical affection for waste, which animates not just camp in its queer subcultural matrix but also in its migrations beyond subcultural boundaries—to mass cul- ture (which tries to capture the dynamics of camp...

... modernism, many of the strategies he describes easily match those used by poets such as Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, and certainly T. S. Eliot in The Waste Land. These ‘‘modernist’’ poets explore the problems of selfhood in a post...

... that won’t come? O quiet form upon the dust, I cannot look and yet I must. If these great patient dyings—all these agonies and wound-bearings and bloodshed— can teach us how to live, these dyings were not wasted. Hate-hardened heart, O heart...