petrofiction

Meaning

Noun

• Fiction that focuses on the oil industry as a major element.
• Fiction that deals with modern culture's dependency on petrochemicals.

Origin

• Originally coined as petro- + fiction by Amitav Ghosh in his review of Abdel Rahman Munif's quintet of novels Cities of Salt (published by New Republic in March 1992). The term was subsequently broadened by Imre Szeman in a 2012 article in American Book Review.