Fracking Novels
Scrabble, Zombies, and the Problematized Real
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4377564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Smith Nash (corresponding author), Susan Smith Nash Susan Smith Nash |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 60 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Literature Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0196-3570 • E-ISSN: 1945-8134 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7588/worllitetoda.91.2.0060 |
| OpenAlex | W2591477072, W4299417085 |
| Language | EN |
The growth of hydraulic fracturing has inspired a subgenre of dystopian novels envisioning environmental destruction, governmental corruption, and more than one zombie apocalypse ending of the American Dream. Here, Susan Smith Nash, who is also a petroleum geologist, surveys how the unintended consequences of this controversial technology have driven the literary imagination of twenty-first-century novelists
Art · Art history · Computer security · Dream · Dystopia · Hollywood · Language change · Literature · Political science · Unintended consequences · Zombie · Computer Science · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Modern American Literature Studies · Psychology · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Highly cited | No |
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