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How are sources of energy presented in twentieth and twenty-first century literary texts? Energy in Literature shows the connections in twentieth and twenty-first century literary texts between energy, society, and environment. The edited volume includes a substantial introduction, poems on energy, eighteen critical essays from international contributors, and a photo essay. The book explores how authors of recent world literature present energy sources ranging from coal and oil to solar, wind, nuclear, biofuels, and hydropower, and how these sources affect local and global communities. The anthology focuses on the impact energy sources have on individuals and the environment, and on salient themes including pollution; disposal of waste; industrial landscapes; sustainability; resource extraction and its economic, social, and developmental consequences; the intertwining between nature and culture; and gender and ethnic identity constructions.
Contents
Introduction; Poems on Energy; Fuelled by StaticShrugged; In the Shadow of the Mine: Life and Death in Julio Llamazares' Escenas de cine mudo; Mining in Contemporary Indigenous Literature; The First Nations' Way: Indigenous People's Literary and Political Resistance to Big Oil; The Nature of Miners and Oilers: Ecological Representations of the Resource Curse in Spanish American Literature; Modernism's Ecological Crisis: The Politics of Energy in Upton Sinclair's Oil!; Living the Wiered: Apocalypsis in Ogaga Ifowodo's The Oil Lamp; Canadian Petro-Poetics: Masculinity, Labor, and Environment in Mathew Henderson's The Lease; Fossil Love, Carbon Footprint: The Poetry of Gary Snyder; Petrolia: Then and Now; Sunspots and Sync; The Chernobyl Nuclear Catastrophe: The Energy Source for Literary Texts within the Post-Soviet Society; Waste, the Bomb, and Surplus-Value: Examining Nuclear Power in DeLillo's Underworld; Impingement on Climate Change on Psychology: Chetan Bhagat's One Night @ the Call Center; New American Georgic: The Marcellus Shale in Contemporary American Literature; Power to the People: Renewable Energy in Brenda Vale's Albion; The Freedom of the Solar Cell: Energies of the Sun across the long Twentieth Century; Hungry Waters; "Just Giver": The Limits of White Privilege in the Oil Tar Sands; Bibliography.
