Oil and Modern World Dramas: From Petro-Mania to Petro-Melancholia (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment)

Synopsis

The first to focus on the (re-)presentations of oil in dramatic literature, theatre, and performance, Oil and Modern World Dramas is a pioneering volume in the emerging field of Oil Literatures and Cultures, and the more established field of World Literatures. Through close analysis, Fakhrkonandeh demonstrates how these dramatic works depict oil, both in its perceived nature and character, as an overdetermined matter/sign/object: a symbol (of freedom, autonomy, speed, wealth, modernity, enlightenment), a commodity, a social-cultural agent, a social relation, and a hyper-object. This book is also distinguished by its innovative and critically manifold conceptual framework, positing the petro-literatures and petro-cultures an inextricable part of a global network. Oil and Modern World Dramas not only demonstrates how the chosen works of petro-drama manifest these concepts in their social-political vision, aesthetics and historical-ontological dynamics, but also reveals how they deploy such assemblage-based approaches both as a cartographical means and aesthetic method for exposing the systemic (Capitalocenic) nature of petro-capitalist exploitation, and as means of proposing ways of resistance and producing alternative modes of subjectivity, community, relationality, and economy.

Copyright:

2023

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

384 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000845969

Related ISBNs:

9781000845921, 9781003134664, 9780367682040

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

04/15/24

Copyrighted By:

Alireza Fakhrkonandeh. The right of Alireza Fakhrkonandeh to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

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