UID:
almahu_9949501450602882
Format:
1 online resource (xxvii, 383 pages).
ISBN:
9781003134664
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1003134661
,
9781000845921
,
1000845923
,
9781000845969
,
1000845966
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
Content:
"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 and relationality and economy"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Fakhrkonandeh, Alireza. Oil and modern world dramas New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9780367682040
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Literary criticism.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003134664
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003134664
