Translating Oil

Petro-Aesthetics and Energy Transition
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-12497-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

This book interrogates a variety of translation processes that take place when petroleum-based cultures are established, maintained, and dismantled.

Through a range of case studies, it shows how energy transition actualises questions of translatability and reflects on how we can learn to communicate better among disciplines, languages, cultures, and generations. Many of the texts and artefacts at issue emanate from regions that tend to pass unnoticed in the predominantly anglophone petroculture studies. In this book, short stories and essays from Iran, Norway, and the United Arab Emirates are made available in English for the first time along with philological comments and ecocritical analyses. Other contributions include chapters dealing with inter-semiotic translations in comics, theatre adaptations, musical performances, photo books, and TV series.

Translating Oil is a long-awaited resource book for students and scholars in the environmental and energy humanities, and a fresh take on petroculture studies. Focusing on energy transition as a translational problem also makes the book highly relevant for translation studies and epistemology. Other affected fields are comparative literature, English literature, Scandinavian studies, Middle East studies, Southeast-Asian studies, human geography, comics studies, performance studies, visual culture, and media studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Furuseth, Sissel

Leyda, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Skandinavische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. How to Translate Oil: An Introduction  PART I: LOSSES AND GAINS  2. In Transition: Maps as Translation Zones in Contemporary Energy Fiction 3. Between Peat Trows and Oil Dragons: Foreignising and Domesticating Oil in the Children’s Stories of Bairns’ Times (1973) 4. Bringing it Home: Visual Domestications of North Sea oil in 1970s Photo Books 5. Playing with Power, Fiction, and Truth: The Alexander Kielland Accident in Makta (Power Play) and the Collapse of Norwegian Oil Politics 6. Societal Transformation in Oil Fiction from the United Arab Emirates: A Translator’s Reflections on Abdul Hamid Ahmad’s “The Bewildered Bird” 7. The Bewildered Bird 8. Multisensory Poetics in the Southern School of Iranian Fiction: Contextualising Ghazi Rabihavi’s “The Towering Fires” 9. The Towering Fires 10. Seeing the Birds in the Tailings Pond: Translating (In)visible Petrocultures in Kate Beaton’s Ducks  PART II: DECONTEXTUALISATIONS AND RECONTEXTUALISATIONS  11. From Duckburg to Norway: Oil in Translated Disney Comics 12. Oil Kids in the Translation Zone 13. The Oil Kids 14. Oil Kid 15. More than an Oil Nation: Re-translating Oil in Mussidi’s “Hon!” (1997) and Kathrina Mohd Daud’s The Witch-Doctor’s Daughter (2022) 16. Petro-collective Desires in Kaizers Orchestra’s Performances 17. Adapting Upton Sinclair’s Oil! for 21st Century Norway: Recontextualisations of Petroleum in the Theatre Performance Olje og vatn  18. Farewell to Oil? Reflective Nostalgia at the Ekofisk Field 19. Everything Sinks into the Sea 20. Afterthoughts: The Oil Encounter in Translation

Über Autor(innen)

Sissel Furuseth is Professor of Nordic Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research includes work on modernism, book reviewing, ecocriticism, and energy. She currently leads the Research Council of Norway funded project “Translatability of Oil” (2023–2027) and co-organises the interdisciplinary network Oil and Society.

Julia Leyda is Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. She is a founder of NTNU’s Environmental Humanities Research Group and a participant in the “Translatability of Oil” project. Her recent work includes Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious (2023).