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Macdonald, Graeme (2017) "Monstrous transformer" : petrofiction and world literature. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53 (3). pp. 289-302. doi:10.1080/17449855.2017.1337680 ISSN 1744-9855.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2017.1337680
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Greenvoe (Orkney) -- History and criticism, Cities of Salt -- History and criticism, Power resources -- Social aspects, Humanities -- Philosophy, Fossil fuels -- Social aspects | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Postcolonial Writing | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 1744-9855 | ||||||
Official Date: | 31 August 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 53 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 289-302 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/17449855.2017.1337680 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Postcolonial Writing on 31 Aug 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17449855.2017.1337680 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 March 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 March 2019 | ||||||
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