Description
Book SynopsisTable of Contents
Contents
Foreword
Randy Malamud
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II
I. The Symbolic Trash Animal
1. See Gull: Cultural Blind Spots and the Disappearance of the Ring-billed Gull in
Toronto
Gavan P. L. Watson
2. Hunger Makes the Wolf
Charles Bergman
3. Beauty and the Beast
Catherine Puckett
4. Managing Apocalypse: A Cultural History of the Mormon Cricket
Christina Robertson
II. The Native Trash Animal
5. One Nation under Coyote, Divisible
Lisa Couturier
6. Prairie Dog and Prejudice
Kelsi Nagy
7. Nothing Says Trash like Packrats: Nature Boy Meets Bushy Tail
Michael P. Branch
III. The Invasive Trash Animal
8. Canadas: From Conservation Success to Flying Carp
Bernard Quetchenbach
9. The Bard’s Bird; or, The Slings and Arrows of Avicultural Hegemony: A Tragicomedy
in Five Acts
Charles Mitchell
10. Fly-Fishing for Carp As a Deeper Aesthetics
Phillip David Johnson II
IV. The Urban Trash Animal
11. Metamorphosis in Detroit
Carolyn Kraus
12. Kach’i: Garbage Birds in a Hybrid Landscape
James E. Bishop
13. Flying Rats
Andrew D. Blechman
V. Moving beyond Trash
14. Kill the Cat That Kills the Bird?
Bruce Barcott
15. An Unlimited Take of Ugly: The Bullhead Catfish
Kyhl Lyndgaard
16. A Six-legged Guru: Fear and Loathing in Nature
Jeffrey A. Lockwood
17. The Parables of the Rats and Mice
Kathleen Dean Moore
Publication History
Contributors
Index
