An Oil Well Named Macondo: Latin American Literature in the Time of Global Capital
For three months in the spring and summer of 2010, almost five million gallons of crude oil gushed uncontrollably from a broken BP well into the Gulf of Mexico, in what is thus far the worst petroleum spill in history. At the moment the spill occurred, the world was still reeling from the largest in...
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crmla:10.1632/pmla.2012.127.1.145 2024-06-09T07:47:11+00:00 An Oil Well Named Macondo: Latin American Literature in the Time of Global Capital Beckman, Ericka 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2012.127.1.145 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0030812900120723 en eng Modern Language Association (MLA) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America volume 127, issue 1, page 145-151 ISSN 0030-8129 1938-1530 journal-article 2012 crmla https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2012.127.1.145 2024-05-16T14:04:39Z For three months in the spring and summer of 2010, almost five million gallons of crude oil gushed uncontrollably from a broken BP well into the Gulf of Mexico, in what is thus far the worst petroleum spill in history. At the moment the spill occurred, the world was still reeling from the largest international financial disaster the world has yet known, one that reverberated from Iceland to the United States to the outer edges of the European Union in Greece and Spain. If the financial crisis was characterized by the sudden disappearance of intangible and invisible financial value, the horrific spectacle of oil-drenched seascapes, birds, fish, and coastlines resulting from the BP spill was a tangible reminder that capitalism had still not been able to emancipate itself from its material body. Even more troubling was the fact that the first several attempts by the multi-billion-dollar company to stanch the broken well were stunning failures: daily news broadcasts brought into public consciousness terms like top kill and kill mud , as hydraulic engineers armed with golf balls and sundry varieties of foam tried to kill the sea monster created by BP. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland PMLA - Modern Language Association Publications PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 127 1 145 151 |
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For three months in the spring and summer of 2010, almost five million gallons of crude oil gushed uncontrollably from a broken BP well into the Gulf of Mexico, in what is thus far the worst petroleum spill in history. At the moment the spill occurred, the world was still reeling from the largest international financial disaster the world has yet known, one that reverberated from Iceland to the United States to the outer edges of the European Union in Greece and Spain. If the financial crisis was characterized by the sudden disappearance of intangible and invisible financial value, the horrific spectacle of oil-drenched seascapes, birds, fish, and coastlines resulting from the BP spill was a tangible reminder that capitalism had still not been able to emancipate itself from its material body. Even more troubling was the fact that the first several attempts by the multi-billion-dollar company to stanch the broken well were stunning failures: daily news broadcasts brought into public consciousness terms like top kill and kill mud , as hydraulic engineers armed with golf balls and sundry varieties of foam tried to kill the sea monster created by BP. |
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