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Auteur(s) : LeMenager, Stephanie (1968-....)
Titre(s) : Living oil [Texte imprimé] : petroleum culture in the American century / Stephanie LeMenager
Publication : New York : Oxford university press, 2014
Description matérielle : xi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection : Oxford studies in American literary history ; 5
Lien à la collection : Oxford studies in American literary history
Comprend : Introduction: Ultradeep, petroleum culture in the American century ; Origins, spills
; The aesthetics of petroleum ; Petromelancholia ; The petroleum archive.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-246) and index
"Living Oil is a work of environmental cultural studies that engages with a wide spectrum
of cultural forms, from museum exhibits and oil industry tours to poetry, documentary
film, fiction, still photography, novels and memoirs. The book's unique focus is the
aesthetic, sensory and emotional legacies of petroleum, from its rise to the preeminent
modern fossil fuel during World War I through the current era of so-called Tough Oil.
LeMenager conceives Tough Oil as a bid for continuity with the charismatic lifestyles
of the American twentieth century that carries distinct and extreme external costs.
She explores the uncomfortable, mixed feelings produced by oil's omnipresence in cultural
artifacts such as books, films, hamburgers, and Aspirin tablets. The book makes a
strong argument for the region as a vital intellectual frame for the study of fossil
fuels, because at the regional level we can better recognize the material effects
of petroleum on the day-to-day lives of humans and other, non-human lives. Varied
forms of art, too, localize the material impacts of petro-culture. The fluid mobility
of oil carries the book outside the United States, for instance to Alberta and Nigeria,
emphasizing how both international and domestic resource regions have been mined to
produce the idealized modern cultures of the so-called American Century."--pub. desc
Sujet(s) : Écocritique
Pétrole -- Industrie et commerce -- États-Unis
Environnement -- Protection -- Dans la littérature
Pétrole -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199899425 (acid-free paper). - ISBN 0199899428 (acid-free paper). - ISBN
0199899436 (electronic bk.). - ISBN 9780199899432 (electronic bk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438808155
Notice n° :
FRBNF43880815
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