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work_injdcanqrbh43noxvjak4cmomi	Lucy Bond	'In the eyeblink of a planet you were born, died, and your bones disintegrated': scales of mourning and velocities of memory in Philipp Meyer's American Rust	2017.0	33	.pdf	application/pdf	9817	556	49	of mourning and velocities of memory in Philipp Meyer's American Rust Keywords: memory; mourning; scale; speed; myth; nation; wilderness narrative; enacts the demand to think of human life at much broader scales of space and time, the ways in which Phillip Meyer's (2009) novel, American Rust, foregrounds the B. Derangements of scale: space and time in American Rust altered in the post-industrial period, Meyer's American Rust goes some way towards American environmentalism, contending that, whilst the late-twentieth and earlytwenty-first centuries might be regarded as 'a cultural moment in which the entire from the violence of history, for Isaac, the natural world is a landscape of suffering the memory of historical loss: whilst Harris hopes to dehistoricise space by seeking submission), both the American pastoral and the wilderness narrative have historically writers at the time'.98 McGurl argues that this process forms part of a 'new cultural 	./cache/work_injdcanqrbh43noxvjak4cmomi.pdf	./txt/work_injdcanqrbh43noxvjak4cmomi.txt