Monstrous transformer
Petrofiction and world literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graeme Macdonald |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 289-302 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2017.1337680 |
| OpenAlex | W2751628359 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article presents a comparative study of two significant novels of oil-encounter modernization, George Mackay Brown’s Greenvoe (1972) and Abdelrahman Munif’s Cities of Salt (1984), in order to argue that such petrofiction both demands and enables consideration of the world-ecological regimes and environmental ramifications of dynamic oil frontiers. These hitherto unconnected novels are brought together via recent arguments for a refurbished notion of world literature, and thereby a new comparative method, and are read through critical debates and theories of petroculture emerging within the energy humanities. The comparative affinities of these texts make visible the ongoing forms of “energopower” determining both the past and future of oil-driven imperialism, but they also offer a means of aesthetic and environmental resistance to the carbonizing determinations of an unsustainable fuel-ecological world-system
Art · Environmental ethics · Literature · Modernization theory · Political science · World literature · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · History · Law · Philosophy
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Extractive Poetics
S/oil
Extractive Fictions and Postextraction Futurisms
Coal politics
The Aesthetics of Naval War Literature
Social Reproduction Feminism and World-Culture
Representing the neocolonial destruction of the Niger Delta
The Great Acceleration
Living Oil
Lifeblood
Understanding carbon lock-in
Capitalism in the web of life
Sacrifice Zones
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Comparative Literature in the Twenty-First Century
Oil and World Literature
World-Economy, World-Ecology, World Literature
The condition of postmodernity
Empire of the Machine
Carbon Democracy
Mean Spirit, A Novel
A Tale of Two Gulfs
Energopower
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |