Abstract
This essay examines two global novels by women, Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra (1982) and Betool Khedairi's Absent (2005)—featuring two peripheral sites in the world-system of oil, Nigeria and Iraq. I argue that these two novels may be read as accounts of oil's obscured resource wars by which colonized landscapes and lives are forcibly expropriated, especially by means of gender violence. In uses of realism blended with irrealist narrative, both novels also uncover missing stories of resourceful resistance and the emergence of revolutionary subjectivities organized around radical caregiving, sustainability, and environmental justice.
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