Contemporary oil fiction: from exuberance to exhaustion

Whereas Frederick Buell identified two recurring motifs for oil fiction in the twentieth century—an “exuberance” always haunted by “catastrophe”—this article proposes a third mode for contemporary oil fiction: an aesthetics of petro-exhaustion. The article takes Hanya Yanagihara’s The People in the...

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Main Author: Heather Milligan
Format: Default Article
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/29339399.v1
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