%0 Journal Article %A Sean Ireton %D 2021 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %J literatur für leser:innen %@ 0343-1657 %N 2 %V 37 %T Introductory Essay: Purity and Pollution – German Texts, American Contexts %R 10.3726/90067_77 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1157016 %X Maxine is thus confronted with “a collective history” by which Pynchon suggests that waste defines, or at least documents, our modern existence. Trash