Oil Fictions - World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere

Explores literature and film about petroleum as a genre of world literature, focusing on the ubiquity of oil as well as the cultural response to petroleum in postcolonial states.

About the author

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.

Summary

Explores literature and film about petroleum as a genre of world literature, focusing on the ubiquity of oil as well as the cultural response to petroleum in postcolonial states.

Product details

• Authors: Stacey Balkan
• Assisted by: Stacey Balkan (Editor), Stacey (Assistant Professor Balkan (Editor), Swaralipi Nandi (Editor), Swaralipi (Assistant Professor Nandi (Editor), Nandi Swaralipi (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2021
• EAN: 9780271091587
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09158-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: AnthropoScene
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; NATURE / Natural Resources, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Petroleum, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Environmental Management, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000