Discursive Constructions of Waste and Slow Violence in Ann Pancake’s Strange as this Weather Has Been
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Discursive Constructions of Waste and Slow Violence in Ann Pancake’s Strange as this Weather Has BeenAuthor(s)
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2022-12Citation
Villamarín Freire, S. “Discursive Constructions of Waste and Slow Violence in Ann Pancake’s Strange As This Weather Has Been”. Revista De Estudios Norteamericanos, vol. 26, Dec. 2022, doi:10.12795/REN.2022.i26.08.
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[Abstract] This paper addresses the representation of environmental destruction in the Appalachian coalfields in the novel Strange as this Weather Has Been(Ann Pancake, 2007). Pancake’s book follows the disbandment of a family of six in southern West Virginia and presents us with the dilemmas they must confront, most notably whether they should leave or stay and organize against the coal company. I seek to analyze the ways in which the novel conveys each character’s embodied, material experience when facingenvironmental destruction; moreover, I examinethe way in whichslow violenceis represented in the text. Focusing on Appalachia’s extractivist past (and present), I argue that Strange as this Weather Has Beenultimately helps to counter the existing prejudice against poor whites in the region by fostering reader empathy through the textual recreation of the bleak environmental condition in the novel’s storyworld [Resumen]Este artículo aborda la representación de la destrucción medioambiental en las regiones mineras de los Apalaches en la novela Strange as this Weather Has Been(Ann Pancake, 2007). El libro de Pancake sigue la separación de una familia de seis miembros en la zona sur de West Virginia y nos presenta los dilemas que deben enfrentar, en particular si deberíanmarcharse o bien quedarse y organizarse en oposición a la compañía energética. Busco analizar el modo en que la novela verbaliza la experiencia material y corporizad a de cada personaje que se enfrenta a la destrucción medioambiental; asimismo,examino el modo en que la violencia lentase representa en el texto. Centrándome en el pasado (y presente) extractivista de los Apalaches, propongo que Strange as this Weather Has Beencontribuye a contrarrestar los prejuicios existentes en contra de la población blanca pobre en la región al promover la empatía del lector a través de las desalentadoras condiciones medioambientale s reflejadas en el mundo narrativo de la novela.
Keywords
Hillbilly
Mountaintop
Removal
Storyworld
Slow violence
Econarratology
Unimagined communities
Montañero
Minería de desplazamiento de cima
Mundo narrativo
Violencia lenta
Econarratología
Comunidades des-imaginadas
Mountaintop
Removal
Storyworld
Slow violence
Econarratology
Unimagined communities
Montañero
Minería de desplazamiento de cima
Mundo narrativo
Violencia lenta
Econarratología
Comunidades des-imaginadas
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Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional
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2253-8410