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