Oil fictions : world literature and our contemporary petrosphere / edited by Stacey Balkan and Swaralipi Nandi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balkan, Stacey, 1973- editor.

Nandi, Swaralipi, editor.

Series:

AnthropoScene

AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum in literature.

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Physical Description:

xvi, 292 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Explores literature and film about petroleum as a genre of world literature, focusing on the ubiquity of oil as well as the cultural response to petroleum in postcolonial states"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Petrofiction, Revisited / Amitav Ghosh

2. Energy and Autonomy: Worker Struggles and the Evolution of Energy Systems / Ashley Dawson

3. Gendering Petrofiction: Energy, Imperialism, and Social Reproduction / Sharae Deckard

4. Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil / Helen Kapstein

5. "We Are Pipeline People": Nnedi Okorafor's Ecocritical Speculations / Wendy W. Walters

6. Petro-drama in the Niger Delta: Ben Binebai's My Life in the Burning Creeks and Oil's "Refuse of History" / Henry Obi Ajumeze

7. Documenting "Cheap Nature" in Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace: A Petro-aesthetic Critique / Stacey Balkan

8. Aestheticizing Absurd Extraction: Petro-capitalism in Deepak Unnikrishnan's "In Mussafah Grew People" / Swaralipi Nandi

9. Petro-cosmopolitics: Oil and the Indian Ocean in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason / Micheal Angelo Rumore

10. Xerodrome Lube: Cyclonic Geopoetics and Petropolytical War Machines / Simon Ryle

11. Oil Gets Everywhere: Critical Representations of the Petroleum Industry in Spanish American Literature / Scott DeVries

12. Conjectures on World Energy Literature / Imre Szeman

13. Petrofiction as Stasis in Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt and Joseph O'Neill's Netherland / Corbin Hiday

14. Assessing the Veracity of the Gulf Dreams: An Interview with Author Benyamin / Maya Vinai

15. Testimonies from the Permian Basin / Sheena Stief.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271091587

0271091584

OCLC:

1240413769