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Blogs about Petrofiction

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Petrofiction--a unit that examines petroculture (gas and oil culture) in relation to speculative fiction narratives concerning oil companies' economic imperialism and environmental destruction. Other texts reflect the scarcity of fuel in developing countries and the ways that scarcity influences their transportation, their economies and their ecology. Because petrofiction is a particular focus because of an article that a student and I are writing, many of these blogs 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.

Contents of this path:

  1. A Review of Kathleen Thum's Oilworks
  2. A Spider, a Girl, and a Guitar
  3. The Breakdown of Western Influence in Spider the Artist
  4. The Commodification of Dystopia and Danger in “Covehithe,” by China Miéville
  5. The Destruction of Indigenous Culture and Land by Oil Colonizers
  6. The Real Poison in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s "Poison"
  7. Udide and friends in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon

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