{"product_id":"oil-and-modern-world-dramas","title":"Oil and Modern World Dramas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first to focus on the (re-)presentations of oil in dramatic literature, theatre, and performance, \u003cem\u003eOil and Modern World Dramas\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eOil and Modern World Dramas\u003c\/em\u003e 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, relationality, and economy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54261326283096,"sku":"9780367682040","price":210.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367682040.jpg?v=1780026339","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/oil-and-modern-world-dramas","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}