Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction: Moods and Modes of Temporality and Belonging

Cover\nContents\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction: Hope and kinship\nPart I What comes after: Temporality and belonging in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction\n	1 Radical solidarity: The (anti-)futuristic politics of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road\n	2 ‘No more kid stuff’: Monstrous kinship in AMC’s The Walking Dead\nPart II Beyond time and space: Queering hope and globalizing kinship in contemporary speculative fiction\n	3 ‘What is an ocean but a multitude of drops’: Metafiction and universal kinship in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas\n	4 ‘I am also a we’: Affect, simultaneity, and the global imagination in Netflix’s Sense8\nPart III Hysterical pessimism: Contingent hope and the proliferation of the present in the novels of Hanya Yanagihara\n	5 Moral matters: Power, coloniality, and narrative in The People in the Trees\n	6 Beyond repair: Friendship and the end of hope in A Little Life\n	Coda\nReferences\nIndex