Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reading Our Contemporary Petrosphere
Stacey Balkan and Swaralipi Nandi
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
Memoirs and Interviews
14. Assessing the Veracity of the Gulf Dreams: An Interview with Author Benyamin
Maya Vinai
15. Testimonies from the Permian Basin
Kristen Figgins, Rebecca Babcock, and Sheena Stief
Afterword
Contributors
Index
Stacey Balkan is Assistant Professor of English and Environmental Humanities at Florida Atlantic University and author of the forthcoming book Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India.
Swaralipi Nandi is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola Academy. She is the coeditor of Spectacles of Blood: A Study of Masculinity and Violence in Postcolonial Films and The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction.
“Oil Fictions covers considerable ground in analyzing oil fiction
as well as identifying new sensibilities associated with oil’s
fantasy of progress and well-being.”—Sofia Ahlberg ISLE:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
“Every one of the essays in this superb collection contributes
thoughtfully to the broadening scholarly discussion around creative
oil literature. Each chapter stands alone as a study of a
particular feature of this conversation, advancing arguments for
the expected scholarly reading audience; however, there are several
accessible openings for non-scholars.... Arguments are engaging,
creative, and sufficiently supported with fascinating links to
other writers including those from postcolonial, Marxist, feminist,
cultural, and Indian Ocean theoretical studies.”—Jennifer McDougall
Journal of Energy History
“This excellent collection not only provides an authoritative
introduction to petrofiction’s key texts, conceptual debates, and
critical methodologies but also extends the range and scope of that
work. In their impressive expansion of the geographical ambit and
theoretical concerns of oil fiction, particularly into the Global
South, these essays offer new and hitherto underrealized
perspectives. They are what the field has been waiting for.”—Graeme
Macdonald, coauthor of Combined and Uneven Development: Toward a
New Theory of World-Literature
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