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,...