Conflicting Views of Landscape in John Steinbeck's Literary West

In the epilogue to John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven, a sightseeing bus carries a group of passengers above the Salinas Valley to gaze on the pastoral scene. The view of the valley below affords contrasting perspectives regarding the future development of the landscape and thus reflects e...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Steinbeck Review. - Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. - 12(2015), 2, Seite 175-189
1. Verfasser:	Searway, Robert (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2015
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:	The Steinbeck Review
Schlagworte:	land use environment global capitalization regional landscapes cultural geography pastoral development Biological sciences Physical sciences Applied sciences mehr... Economics Business


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520			\|a In the epilogue to John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven, a sightseeing bus carries a group of passengers above the Salinas Valley to gaze on the pastoral scene. The view of the valley below affords contrasting perspectives regarding the future development of the landscape and thus reflects explicitly on conflicts portrayed throughout stories within the main text. One tourist sees the development of economic modernity and prophesizes an encroaching capitalist system that would destroy the environment for the pursuit of economic gain. Another onlooker imagines the continuation of a pastoral way of life, of local communities living in concert with the landscape. According to Sara Blair's theory of cultural geography, localities become "specific places … where individuals negotiate definitively social relations" such as between these global and regional forces (545). In Pastures, this clash of the regional and global affects characters living in the quiet agricultural community as they suffer under the pressure of the encroaching economic perspective brought into the valley by the Munroe family. As in Cannery Row, Steinbeck portrays individuals struggling against the pressures of global capitalization in regional landscapes. This paper will explore how small groups of misfit communities in Steinbeck's works attempt to survive apart from greater economic forces impinging on them. Steinbeck reveals that individuals who come to uphold regional values that protect the environment against economic exploitation serve as the antidote to encroaching global forces and exemplify a potential way to navigate conflicting economic perspectives.
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