RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Plotting against oil in American and Canadian non-fiction T2 Conspirando contra el petróleo en la no-ficción americana y canadiense A1 Wójcik-Czerwińska, Marta K1 Literature K1 Non-fiction K1 Oil K1 Stephanie LeMenager K1 Andrew Nikiforuk K1 William L. Fox K1 Literatura K1 No-ficción K1 Petróleo K1 Literatura K1 Literature K1 Medio ambiente K1 Environmental science AB Stephanie LeMenager, literature professor and author of “Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century” (2014), opens her study of America’s relationship with the resource by asserting that reports of its death have been exaggerated. Oil not only continues to drive American modernity, but also to inspire writers to explore it, in both fiction and non-fiction. While “petrofiction,” fiction with oilat its core, has received critical attention, certain new developments in non-fictional writing centred on petroleum call for more consideration. This article, therefore, probes representations of oil in contemporary American and Canadian non-fiction. It analyses William L. Fox’s essay “A Pipeline Runs through It” (2011), which is based on a trip along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and Andrew Nikiforuk’s article “Canadian Democracy: Death by Pipeline” (2012), which discusses the impact of the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia. Adopting an ecocritical perspective, the article puts to the test LeMenager’s thesis that journalists are “expert plotters against oil” and “conservationists.” To this end, it analyses the specific meansby which the two journalists expose the presence of oil and highlight its micro and macro implications, from its impact on the landscape and the lives of people whose livelihoods and cultures have been shaped by the natural world, to that on democracy andour minds. PB Universidad de Alcalá SN 2171-9594 YR 2017 FD 2017 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/31479 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/31479 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 27-abr-2024