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Oil Fictions : World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere /

Oil, like other fossil fuels, permeates every aspect of human existence. Yet it has been largely ignored by cultural critics, especially in the context of the Global South. Seeking to make visible not only the pervasiveness of oil in society and culture but also its power, Oil Fictions stages a crit...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Walters, Wendy W. (Συντελεστής), Vinai, Maya (Συντελεστής), Szeman, Imre (Συντελεστής), Stief, Sheena (Συντελεστής), Ryle, Simon (Συντελεστής), Obi Ajumeze, Henry (Συντελεστής), Kapstein, Helen (Συντελεστής), Hiday, Corbin (Συντελεστής), Ghosh, Amitav (Συντελεστής), Figgins, Kristen (Συντελεστής), Deckard, Sharae (Συντελεστής), DeVries, Scott (Συντελεστής), Dawson, Ashley (Συντελεστής), Babcock, Rebecca (Συντελεστής), Angelo Rumore, Micheal (Συντελεστής), Nandi, Swaralipi (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Balkan, Stacey, 1973- (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
Έκδοση: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]
Σειρά:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Θέματα:
Petroleum in literature.
Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century .
Fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Reading Our Contemporary Petrosphere
  • 1 Petrofiction, Revisited
  • 2 Energy and Autonomy: Worker Struggles and the Evolution of Energy Systems
  • 3 Gendering Petrofi ction: Energy, Imperialism, and Social Reproduction
  • 4 Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil
  • 5 "We Are Pipeline People": Nnedi Okorafor's Ecocritical Speculations
  • 6 Petro-drama in the Niger Delta: Ben Binebai's My Life in the Burning Creeks and Oil's "Refuse of History"
  • 7 Documenting "Cheap Nature" in Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace: A Petro-aesthetic Critique
  • 8 Aestheticizing Absurd Extraction: Petro-capitalism in Deepak Unnikrishnan's "In Mussafah Grew People"
  • 9 Petro-cosmopolitics: Oil and the Indian Ocean in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason
  • 10 Xerodrome Lube: Cyclonic Geopoetics and Petropolytical War Machines
  • 11 Oil Gets Everywhere: Critical Representations of the Petroleum Industry in Spanish American Literature
  • 12 Conjectures on World Energy Literature
  • 13 Petrofiction as Stasis in Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt and Joseph O'Neill's Netherland
  • 14 Assessing the Veracity of the Gulf Dreams: An Interview with Author Benyamin
  • 15 Testimonies from the Permian Basin
  • Afterword
  • Contributors
  • Index

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