ENGL 101W Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mountaintop Removal Mining, Coal Slurry, Bant
21 Feb 2017
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Labor history mostly from coal industry in west virginia (only 1% of population employed, dying industry and growing poverty) Southern west virginia and eastern kentucky (remote regions) subject of labor controversy and history of abuse. West virginia is split off from virginia during civil war and was rampant of slavery and poverty (conservative donald trump supporters) Lace in the past wanted to go to a university and have a career but then she had a child and her dreams ended (haunts the novel) Adolescent tension in novel: trying to get out but becoming homesick (what about this place keeps dragging people back) 10 sense of being enveloped/nurtured and trapped. Lace is the most articulate narrator, then bant (lace"s daughter) and the younger less literate narrators are in third person present tense. Stream of consciousness as i lay dying (not this book) Mountaintop removal by a coal company is presented as a epistemological (deductive) problem because it could cause floods.
