Oil Culture |
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| Editor:
| Barrett, Ross
Worden, Daniel |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-8974-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Investigating cultural discourses that have takenshape around oil, these essays in Oil Culture compose the firstsustained attempt to understand how petroleum has suffused the Westernimagination. By considering oil as both a natural resource and a trope, theauthors show how oil's dominance is part of culture rather than an economic orphysical necessity.
Investigating cultural discourses that have takenshape around oil, these essays in Oil Culture compose the firstsustained attempt to understand how petroleum has suffused the Westernimagination. By considering oil as both a natural resource and a trope, theauthors show how oil's dominance is part of culture rather than an economic orphysical necessity.