Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere. Edited by Stacey Balkan and Swaralipi Nandi.

I Oil Fictions i covers considerable ground in analyzing oil fiction as well as identifying new sensibilities associated with oil's fantasy of progress and well-being. In explaining the shift from petrofiction to oil fiction, the editors refer to Rob Nixon's notion of slow violence, as in the "extractivist economies that thrive on the off-siting of violence" (3). I Oil Fictions i concludes with an afterword by Imre Szeman whose 2017 essay "Conjectures on World Energy Literature" is also in the collection. [Extracted from the article]