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Mining Memories with Donald Trump in the Anthropocene

Author(s) -

Arthur Rose

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

modern fiction studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.137

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 1080-658X

pISSN - 0026-7724

DOI - 10.1353/mfs.2018.0050

Subject(s) - anthropocene , appeal , politics , history , environmental ethics , coal , identity (music) , coal mining , aesthetics , white (mutation) , deep time , sociology , archaeology , political science , art , law , philosophy , geology , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , gene

This essay juxtaposes works about East Kentucky coal communities by Elmore Leonard and bell hooks to consider what “coal identity politics” might be in the Anthropocene. The election of Donald Trump enabled new performances of white supremacy, in part through his appeal to coal nostalgia. At the same time, his environmental policies pose a threat to that little progress achieved by the Paris Accord. This entanglement demands a more nuanced approach to the affective dimensions of nostalgia from scholars of the Anthropocene. This essay explores the consequences of the nostalgia evoked in representations of coal mining communities.

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