Stacey Balkan is Assistant Professor of English and Environmental Humanities at Florida Atlantic University and author of the forthcoming book Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India. Swaralipi Nandi is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola Academy. She is the coeditor of Spectacles of Blood: A Study of Masculinity and Violence in Postcolonial Films and The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction.
This excellent collection not only provides an authoritative introduction to petrofiction's key texts, conceptual debates, and critical methodologies but also extends the range and scope of that work. In their impressive expansion of the geographical ambit and theoretical concerns of oil fiction, particularly into the Global South, these essays offer new and hitherto underrealized perspectives. They are what the field has been waiting for. -Graeme Macdonald, coauthor of Combined and Uneven Development: Toward a New Theory of World-Literature Oil Fictions covers considerable ground in analyzing oil fiction as well as identifying new sensibilities associated with oil's fantasy of progress and well-being. -Sofia Ahlberg, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment