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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2025
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