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to explore fiction which evaluates society's dominance by a petroleum economy and a related culture shaped by petroleum. Most critics were trying to find works that focused on the oil industry before
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in 1992. When describing the concept, he noticed an absence of literature exploring the role of "oil encounters" between countries that extract oil and those that consume.
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This genre has been particularly important in non-Western literature, exploring how encounters with oil are entangled with other issues in the Global South.
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Xinos, Ilana (Winter 2006). "Petro-capitalism, petrofiction, and Islamic discourse: The formation of an imagined community in Cities of Salt".
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Works of petrofiction proliferated in the 2000s and 2010s, along with a growing critical focus, as a result of concerns about
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proposed a slightly larger scope: all works that explore "the important role played by oil in contemporary society."
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Peak Oil : apocalyptic environmentalism and libertarian political culture
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Some critics have connected the role of petrofiction to the emergence of
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and the impact of oil on society. He coined the term when reviewing
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is a genre of fiction focused on the role of petroleum in society.
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Genre of fiction focused on the role of petroleum oil in society
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in a 2012 editorial introduction to a special edition of the
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Living oil : petroleum culture in the American century
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Index

Amitav Ghosh
petroleum industry
Abdul Rahman Munif
Cities of Salt
Imre Szeman
American Book Review
climate change
peak oil
literary criticism
climate fiction
Anthropocene
Petroleum, Petroleum
Gustav Meyrink
Oil!
Upton Sinclair
Greenvoe
George Mackay Brown
Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike
Cities of Salt
Abdul Rahman Munif
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Karen Tei Yamashita
Petrolio
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Tropic of Orange
Karen Tei Yamashita
GraceLand
Chris Abani
Things We Didn't See Coming

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