Postcolonial Speculative Fiction

Introduction to the Project

Oil Platform
This Scalar book will contain the blogs of students participating in Eng410: Genre Studies: Postcolonial Speculative Fiction at Coker College. Many of these blogs will focus on the relationship between the West's gas and oil culture and the ways that Western companies' economic dominance are played out in African nations and the Caribbean. This look at so-called Petrofictions was a specific emphasis of the class.

Texts

  • Nnedi Okorafor, Kabu Kabu, Lagoon, and Binti
  • Nisi Shawl, Everfair
  • Tomi Adeyemi, The Children of Blood and Bone
  • Nalo Hopkinson, The Midnight Robber
  • Sofia and Del Samatar, Monster Portraits

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