Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Reading Our Contemporary Petrosphere 1
6. 1 Petrofiction, Revisited 19
7. 2 Energy and Autonomy: Worker Struggles and the Evolution of Energy Systems 22
8. 3 Gendering Petrofi ction: Energy, Imperialism, and Social Reproduction 41
9. 4 Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil 59
10. 5 “We Are Pipeline People”: Nnedi Okorafor’s Ecocritical Speculations 80
11. 6 Petro-drama in the Niger Delta: Ben Binebai’s My Life in the Burning Creeks and Oil’s “Refuse of History” 99
12. 7 Documenting “Cheap Nature” in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace: A Petro-aesthetic Critique 114
13. 8 Aestheticizing Absurd Extraction: Petro-capitalism in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s “In Mussafah Grew People” 132
14. 9 Petro-cosmopolitics: Oil and the Indian Ocean in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason 152
15. 10 Xerodrome Lube: Cyclonic Geopoetics and Petropolytical War Machines 170
16. 11 Oil Gets Everywhere: Critical Representations of the Petroleum Industry in Spanish American Literature 190
17. 12 Conjectures on World Energy Literature 204
18. 13 Petrofiction as Stasis in Abdelrahman Munif’s Cities of Salt and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland 219
19. 14 Assessing the Veracity of the Gulf Dreams: An Interview with Author Benyamin 237
20. 15 Testimonies from the Permian Basin 249
21. Afterword 263
22. Contributors 273
23. Index 277