Unsettled Solutions: Petropastoral Poetics in Rita Wong’s undercurrent

Max  Karpinski

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Vol. 45 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: Neoliberal Environments

Unsettled Solutions: Petropastoral Poetics in Rita Wong’s undercurrent

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Submitted: July 14, 2021
Published: 2021-07-14

References

Alaimo, Stacy. Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times. U of Minnesota P, 2016.
Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke UP, 2007.
Barrett, Ross, and Daniel Worden. “Introduction.” Oil Culture, edited by Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, U of Minnesota P, 2014, pp. xvii-xxxiii.
Beauregard, Guy. “Transpacific Precarities: Responding to Souvankham Thammavongsa’s Found and Rita Wong’s Forage in East Asia.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, vol. 20, no. 4, 2019, pp. 564-81.
Berlant, Lauren. “The Commons: Infrastructures for Troubling Times.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 34, no. 3, 2016, pp. 393-419.
Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke UP, 2011.
Carter, Angela V. “Petro-Capitalism and the Tar Sands.” A Line in the Tar Sands, edited by Toban Black et al., Between the Lines, 2014, pp. 23-35.
Cazdyn, Eric. The Already Dead: The New Time of Politics, Culture, and Illness. Duke UP, 2012.
Cazdyn, Eric, and Imre Szeman. After Globalization. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. U of Minnesota P, 2014.
Farrier, David. Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction. U of Minnesota P, 2019.
Fortier, Craig. Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements within, against, and beyond Settler Colonialism. ARP Books, 2017.
Haluza-DeLay, Randolph. “Assembling Consent in Alberta: Hegemony and the Tar Sands.” A Line in the Tar Sands, edited by Toban Black et al., Between the Lines, 2014, pp. 36-44.
Haraway, Donna J. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke UP, 2016.
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Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Simon and Schuster, 2014.
Lai, Larissa. “Epistemologies of Respect: A Poetics of Asian/Indigenous Relation.” Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies, edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014, pp. 99-126.
LeMenager, Stephanie. Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Oxford UP, 2014.
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McMenamin, Mark, and Dianna McMenamin. Hypersea: Life on Land. Columbia UP, 1994.
McSweeney, Joyelle. The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults. U of Michigan P, 2015.
Miki, Roy. In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing. NeWest, 2011.
Nancy, Jean-Luc. After Fukushima: The Equivalence of Catastrophes, translated by Charlotte Mandel, Fordham UP, 2015.
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Povinelli, Elizabeth A. Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. Duke UP, 2016.
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Simpson, Mark. “Lubricity: Smooth Oil’s Political Frictions.” Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, edited by Sheena Wilson et al., McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017, pp. 287-318.
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Wong, Rita. Undercurrent. Nightwood Editions, 2015.
Wong, Rita, and Dorothy Christian. “Introduction: Re-Storying Waters, Re-Storying Relations.” Downstream: Reimagining Water, edited by Dorothy Christian and Rita Wong, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2017, pp. 1-25.

How to Cite

Karpinski, M. . (2021). Unsettled Solutions: Petropastoral Poetics in Rita Wong’s undercurrent. Studies in Canadian Literature, 45(2), 205–228. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32506

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[1] Alaimo, Stacy. Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times. U of Minnesota P, 2016.

[2] Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke UP, 2007.

[3] Barrett, Ross, and Daniel Worden. “Introduction.” Oil Culture, edited by Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, U of Minnesota P, 2014, pp. xvii-xxxiii.

[4] Beauregard, Guy. “Transpacific Precarities: Responding to Souvankham Thammavongsa’s Found and Rita Wong’s Forage in East Asia.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, vol. 20, no. 4, 2019, pp. 564-81.

[5] Berlant, Lauren. “The Commons: Infrastructures for Troubling Times.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 34, no. 3, 2016, pp. 393-419.

[6] Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke UP, 2011.

[7] Carter, Angela V. “Petro-Capitalism and the Tar Sands.” A Line in the Tar Sands, edited by Toban Black et al., Between the Lines, 2014, pp. 23-35.

[8] Cazdyn, Eric. The Already Dead: The New Time of Politics, Culture, and Illness. Duke UP, 2012.

[9] Cazdyn, Eric, and Imre Szeman. After Globalization. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

[10] Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. U of Minnesota P, 2014.

[11] Farrier, David. Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction. U of Minnesota P, 2019.

[12] Fortier, Craig. Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements within, against, and beyond Settler Colonialism. ARP Books, 2017.

[13] Haluza-DeLay, Randolph. “Assembling Consent in Alberta: Hegemony and the Tar Sands.” A Line in the Tar Sands, edited by Toban Black et al., Between the Lines, 2014, pp. 36-44.

[14] Haraway, Donna J. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke UP, 2016.

[15] Hardt, Michael. “Two Faces of Apocalypse: A Letter from Copenhagen.” Polygraph, vol. 22, 2010, pp. 265-74.

[16] Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Simon and Schuster, 2014.

[17] Lai, Larissa. “Epistemologies of Respect: A Poetics of Asian/Indigenous Relation.” Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies, edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014, pp. 99-126.

[18] LeMenager, Stephanie. Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Oxford UP, 2014.

[19] MacLeod, Janine. “Holding Water in Times of Hydrophobia.” Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, edited by Sheena Wilson et al., McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017, pp. 264-86.

[20] McMenamin, Mark, and Dianna McMenamin. Hypersea: Life on Land. Columbia UP, 1994.

[21] McSweeney, Joyelle. The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults. U of Michigan P, 2015.

[22] Miki, Roy. In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing. NeWest, 2011.

[23] Nancy, Jean-Luc. After Fukushima: The Equivalence of Catastrophes, translated by Charlotte Mandel, Fordham UP, 2015.

[24] Neimanis, Astrida. Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

[25] Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard UP, 2011.

[26] Povinelli, Elizabeth A. Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism. Duke UP, 2011.

[27] Povinelli, Elizabeth A. Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. Duke UP, 2016.

[28] Rifkin, Mark. Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Determination. Duke UP, 2017.

[29] Semal, Luc. “Anthropocene, Catastrophism and Green Political Theory.” The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch, edited by Clive Hamilton et al., Routledge, 2015, pp. 87-99.

[30] Simpson, Mark. “Lubricity: Smooth Oil’s Political Frictions.” Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, edited by Sheena Wilson et al., McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017, pp. 287-318.

[31] Stoekl, Allan. Bataille’s Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability. U of Minnesota P, 2007.

[32] Szeman, Imre. “System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation of Disaster.” South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 106, no. 4, 2007, pp. 805-23.

[33] Takach, Geo. “Visualizing Alberta: Duelling Documentaries and Bituminous Sands.” Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene, edited by Robert Boschman and Mario Trono, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014, pp. 85-103.

[34] Wilson, Sheena, et al. “On Petrocultures: Or, Why We Need to Understand Oil to Understand Everything Else.” Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture, edited by Sheena Wilson et al., McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017, pp. 3-19.

[35] Wong, Rita. “Cultivating Respectful Relations: A Response to Leroy Little Bear.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 39, no. 4, 2012, pp. 528-36.

[36] Wong, Rita. “Decolonizasian: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature.” Canadian Literature, vol. 199, 2008, pp. 158-80.

[37] Wong, Rita. Undercurrent. Nightwood Editions, 2015.

[38] Wong, Rita, and Dorothy Christian. “Introduction: Re-Storying Waters, Re-Storying Relations.” Downstream: Reimagining Water, edited by Dorothy Christian and Rita Wong, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2017, pp. 1-25.