Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere

Contents\nPreface\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction: Reading Our Contemporary Petrosphere\n1 Petrofiction, Revisited\n2 Energy and Autonomy: Worker Struggles and the Evolution of Energy Systems\n3 Gendering Petrofi ction: Energy, Imperialism, and Social Reproduction\n4 Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil\n5 “We Are Pipeline People”: Nnedi Okorafor’s Ecocritical Speculations\n6 Petro-drama in the Niger Delta: Ben Binebai’s My Life in the Burning Creeks and Oil’s “Refuse of History”\n7 Documenting “Cheap Nature” in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace: A Petro-aesthetic Critique\n8 Aestheticizing Absurd Extraction: Petro-capitalism in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s “In Mussafah Grew People”\n9 Petro-cosmopolitics: Oil and the Indian Ocean in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason\n10 Xerodrome Lube: Cyclonic Geopoetics and Petropolytical War Machines\n11 Oil Gets Everywhere: Critical Representations of the Petroleum Industry in Spanish American Literature\n12 Conjectures on World Energy Literature\n13 Petrofiction as Stasis in Abdelrahman Munif’s Cities of Salt and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland\n14 Assessing the Veracity of the Gulf Dreams: An Interview with Author Benyamin\n15 Testimonies from the Permian Basin\nAfterword\nContributors\nIndex