Unsustainable oil : facts, counterfacts and fictions /

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"Bitumen extraction is the lifeblood of Alberta, and there are many stories about the boom-and-bust economy. But what does literature have to say about the "progress" of petroculture? Jon Gordon maps out a new field of study by examining the relationship between culture and energy ext...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gordon, Jon, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2015.
Edition:First electronic edition, 2015.
Subjects:
Ecocriticism.
Environmental protection in literature.
Oil sands industry > Alberta.
Écocritique.
Environnement > Protection, dans la littérature.
Sables bitumineux > Industrie > Alberta.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Ecocriticism
Environmental protection in literature
Oil sands industry
Alberta
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : Fast Food Vacation
  • Introduction : Unsustainable Rhetoric
  • 1 Lyric Oil : Re-presenting Fossil Fuels As a Cultural By-Product
  • 2 Oil Sacrifices : Petroculture and (E)utopian Imaginings of Progress
  • 3 Impossible Choices : Fort Mac and Oil as a "Matter of Concern"
  • 4 Irrational Oil : Ethos, Extraction!, Elder Brother, and Free Speech
  • 5 Pipeline Facts, Poetic Counterfacts : Metaphor and Self-Deception in a Bitumen Nation
  • 6 Oil Desires : Appetites and Fast Violence in the Bituminous Sands
  • Conclusion : Living (with) Bitumen
  • Epilogue : Whitney Lakes Provincial Park.

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