Narratives of Hope and Despair : Ruin and Regeneration in Literature and Culture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wagner, Johanna M.

Contributor:

Duckworth, Melanie.

Benjamin, Deanna.

Series:

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

In narratives of literature and cultural production, hope and despair remain fundamental in exploring our world. In recent years, political polarization, the Covid pandemic, global warming, and new and ongoing wars have contributed to global crises, to which despair is an understandable response. Yet hope is continually sought and proclaimed.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsements

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Individual Matters: Body and Mind

1 "Common, but Not Normal": The Narrative of Illness in Duermo mucho [I Sleep a Lot], by Maria Manonelles Ribes

2 Hope and Despair in the Grey Zone: Unlikely Solidarities and Friendships in Negotiating Prolonged Incarceration in Sri Lanka's Political Prisons

3 Spacetime, Tone, and the Sublime: Hope and Despair in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood

4 Pessimistic Hope as Rebellion: Fassbinder's Despair and Utopia

Part II Societal Matters: Utopian and Dystopian Impulses

5 Trauma Memoir as Dystopian Literature

6 Climbing Mt. Holyoke: Emily Dickinson, Mary Lyon, and Woman-Centered Utopias

7 "Falling Out of the Story": Asian American Archives, Cruel Optimism, and Emancipatory Apparatuses in Sally Wen Mao's Oculus and Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown

8 "End. Begin. All the same . . .": The Ends (and Beginnings) of Worlds in Netflix's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

9 At the End of History: Art Practices in Times and Spaces of Modern Ruination

Part III Earthly Matters: Apocalypse and the Anthropocene

10 Norwegian Futurisms: Energy Transitions in Young Adult Eco-Dystopian Fiction

11 Animal Voices in the Apocalypse: The Animals in That Country and The Ghost of the Cock

12 Ruins of the Holocene: Notes on Climate Change and the Rise of Disaster Liberalism

13 Optimistic versus Ominous: Competing Rhetorics of Ecological Crisis

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-044238-2

1-04-044241-2

1-003-65669-2

9781003656692

OCLC:

1546964743

Publisher Number:

CIPO000272417