Trash, 'White Trash' and 'Wasted Humans': Racial and Environmental (In)Justice in Tristan Egolf's Lord of the Barnyard.
A garbage collectors' strike is in the center of Tristan Egolf Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt. Trash overflows the fictitious town of Baker, Kentucky the novel portrays, alongside a truly extraordinary catalog of numerous kinds of filth. The novel...
| Publicado en: | Critique Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 156 - 167 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2024
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