Petrofiction

Quick meaning: Petrofiction is a noun meaning fiction that focuses on the oil industry as a major element.

Meaning

fiction that focuses on the oil industry as a major element.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Fiction that deals with modern culture's dependency on petrochemicals.

Example Sentences

In the canon of Arabic literature, Munif ’s Cities of Salt and Kanafani’s Men in the Sun are a duo, exemplary of ground-breaking petrofiction.

A pertinent example of the energy unconscious in petrofiction is Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island, in which an oil spill is one of the dominant motifs.

This neglect of water exists in spite of a growing trend towards reading literature for its representations of resources, most prominently in the subject of 'petrofiction'.

Further, for Middle Eastern petrofiction, such as Abdelraman Munif's novel Cities of Salt, the novel can seem an unfortunate appropriation of the Western form rather than an indigenous form.

Word Forms

• petrofictions

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include petrogeology, petrochemistry, petrophysics, petrocultures, petropolitics, petrophysicist.

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