Hope and kinship in contemporary fiction moods and modes of temporality and belonging
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Hope and kinship -- Part I What comes after: Temporality and belonging in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction -- 1 Radical solidarity: The (anti-)futuristic politics of Cormac McCarthy's The Road -- 2 'No more kid stuff': Monstr...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, London, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney
Bloomsbury Academic
2024
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Hope and kinship -- Part I What comes after: Temporality and belonging in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction -- 1 Radical solidarity: The (anti-)futuristic politics of Cormac McCarthy's The Road -- 2 'No more kid stuff': Monstrous kinship in AMC's The Walking Dead -- Part II Beyond time and space: Queering hope and globalizing kinship in contemporary speculative fiction -- 3 'What is an ocean but a multitude of drops': Metafiction and universal kinship in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas -- 4 'I am also a we': Affect, simultaneity, and the global imagination in Netflix's Sense 8 -- Part III Hysterical pessimism: Contingent hope and the proliferation of the present in the novels of Hanya Yanagihara -- 5 Moral matters: Power, coloniality, and narrative in The People in the Trees -- 6 Beyond repair: Friendship and the end of hope in A Little Life -- Coda -- References -- Index. "Explores the emphasis that contemporary novels, films and television series place on the present, arguing that hope emerges from the potentiality of the here and now, rather than the future, and as intimately entangled with negotiations of structures of belonging"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | vi, 263 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9798765104194 979-8-7651-0419-4 9798765104224 |