Impasse Poetics at the Nordic Oil Coast

Name: Impasse Poetics at the Nordic Oil Coast
Brand: WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Contemporary Petrofiction from Denmark and Norway

By: Karl Emil Rosenbaek Reetz

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Paperback | 24 August 2026

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The first major study of contemporary Nordic petrofiction. Through a variety of cultural texts, including the Nordic noir mystery Smila's Sense of Snow, Rosenbaek Reetz exposes the cultural, political, and environmental tensions in which green frontier ideas must coexist with the ongoing reliance on oil and gas and critiques the paradox of Nordic nations positioning themselves as climate leaders while remaining deeply tied to fossil fuel economies.

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"An important- even necessary - contribution to a growing body of work on petroculture, from a region with a significant, yet understudied, greenhouse gass footprint. This culture of oil extraction is fascinatingly contradictory, even monstrous." - Karen Pinkus, Cornell University professor emerita and author of Subsurface and Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary

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