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Titel:Oil fictions
Titelzusatz:world literature and our contemporary petrosphere
Mitwirkende:Balkan, Stacey [HerausgeberIn]   i
 Nandi, Swaralipi [HerausgeberIn]   i
 Angelo Rumore, Micheal [MitwirkendeR]   i
 Babcock, Rebecca [MitwirkendeR]   i
 Dawson, Ashley [MitwirkendeR]   i
 DeVries, Scott [MitwirkendeR]   i
 Deckard, Sharae [MitwirkendeR]   i
 Figgins, Kristen [MitwirkendeR]   i
 Ghosh, Amitav [MitwirkendeR]   i
 Hiday, Corbin [MitwirkendeR]   i
 Kapstein, Helen [MitwirkendeR]   i
 Obi Ajumeze, Henry [MitwirkendeR]   i
 Ryle, Simon [MitwirkendeR]   i
 Stief, Sheena [MitwirkendeR]   i
 Szeman, Imre [MitwirkendeR]   i
 Vinai, Maya [MitwirkendeR]   i
 Walters, Wendy W. [MitwirkendeR]   i
Verf.angabe:edited by Stacey Balkan and Swaralipi Nandi
Verlagsort:University Park, Pennsylvania
Verlag:The Pennsylvania State University Press
E-Jahr:2021
Jahr:[2021]
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 292 pages)
Illustrationen:illustrations
Gesamttitel/Reihe:AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series
Fussnoten:Includes bibliographical references and index
Schrift/Sprache:In English
Ang. zum Inhalt: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
ISBN:978-0-271-09187-7
 0-271-09187-8
Abstract: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 critical intervention that aligns with the broader goals of the energy humanities.Exploring literature and film about petroleum as a genre of world literature, Oil Fictions focuses on the ubiquity of oil as well as the cultural response to petroleum in postcolonial states. The chapters engage with African, South American, South Asian, Iranian, and transnational petrofictions and cover topics such as the relationship of colonialism to the fossil fuel economy, issues of gender in the Thermocene epoch, and discussions of migration, precarious labor, and the petro-diaspora. This unique exploration includes testimonies of the oil encounter--through memoirs, journals, and interviews--from a diverse geopolitical grid, ranging from the Permian Basin to the Persian Gulf.By engaging with non-Western literary responses to petroleum in a concentrated, sustained way, this pathbreaking book illuminates the transnational dimensions of the discourse on oil. It will appeal to scholars and students working in literature and science studies, energy humanities, ecocriticism, petrocriticism, environmental humanities, and Anthropocene studies.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Henry Obi Ajumeze, Rebecca Babcock, Ashley Dawson, Sharae Deckard, Scott DeVries, Kristen Figgins, Amitav Ghosh, Corbin Hiday, Helen Kapstein, Micheal Angelo Rumore, Simon Ryle, Sheena Stief, Imre Szeman, Maya Vinai, and Wendy W. Walters
URL:kostenfrei: Verlag: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jj.5233138
Datenträger:Online-Ressource
Sprache:eng
Sach-SW:Pétrole dans la littérature
 Roman - 21e siècle - Histoire et critique
 LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century
 Fiction
 Petroleum in literature
 Criticism, interpretation, etc
Zeit-SW:1900-2099
K10plus-PPN:186988714X
 
 
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