petrofictions

Noun

petrofiction (countable and uncountable, plural petrofictions)

1. fiction that focuses on the oil industry as a major element.
   • Further, for Middle Eastern petrofiction, such as Abdelraman Munif's novel Cities of Salt, the novel can seem an unfortunate appropriation of the Western form rather than an indigenous form.2013 May, Elisa Warford, “Texas petrofiction: regionalism and the oil stories of Winifred Sanford”, in Southwestern American Literature, volume 62, number 5
2. (broadly) Fiction that deals with modern culture's dependency on petrochemicals.
   • This neglect of water exists in spite of a growing trend towards reading literature for its representations of resources, most prominently in the subject of 'petrofiction'.2015, Hannah Boast, Hydrofictions: Water, Power and Politics in Israeli and Palestinian Literature. (PhD thesis University of York)