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Unrau, Melanie Dennis

 
9780228022930: The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-worker Poetry
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ISBN 10 : 0228022932 ISBN 13 : 9780228022930
Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles these assumptions, revealing the fear, confusion, betrayal, and indignation hidden beneath tough personas. The Rough Poets presents poetry by workers in the Canadian oil and gas industry, collecting and closely reading texts published between 1938 and 2019: S.C. Ells’s Northland Trails, Peter Christensen’s Rig Talk, Dymphny Dronyk’s Contrary Infatuations, Mathew Henderson’s The Lease, Naden Parkin’s A Relationship with Truth, Lesley Battler’s Endangered Hydrocarbons, and Lindsay Bird’s Boom Time. These writers are uniquely positioned, Melanie Dennis Unrau argues, both as petropoets who write poetry about oil and as theorists of petropoetics with unique knowledge about how to make and unmake worlds that depend on fossil fuels. Their ambivalent, playful, crude, and honest petropoetry shows that oil workers grieve the environmental and social impacts of their work, worry about climate change and the futures of their communities, and desire jobs and ways of life that are good, safe, and just. How does it feel to be a worker in the oil and gas industry in a climate emergency, facing an energy transition that threatens your way of life? Unrau takes up this question with the respect, care, and imagination necessary to be an environmentalist reader in solidarity with oil workers.

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À propos de l'auteur

Melanie Dennis Unrau is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Banting postdoctoral fellow in geography and environmental studies at the University of Regina.

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Éditeur
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0228022932
ISBN 13 
9780228022930
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
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Personne responsable
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