Narratives of Hope and Despair
Ruin and Regeneration in Literature and Culture
Herausgeber: Wagner, Johanna M.; Benjamin, Deanna; Duckworth, Melanie
Narratives of Hope and Despair
Ruin and Regeneration in Literature and Culture
Herausgeber: Wagner, Johanna M.; Benjamin, Deanna; Duckworth, Melanie
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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
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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
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Routledge
- Seitenzahl: 238
- Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2025
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 501g
- ISBN-13: 9781041107583
- ISBN-10: 1041107587
- Artikelnr.: 74879712
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Routledge
- Seitenzahl: 238
- Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2025
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 501g
- ISBN-13: 9781041107583
- ISBN-10: 1041107587
- Artikelnr.: 74879712
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Johanna M. Wagner is Professor of English at Østfold University College in Norway. She publishes in American and British literature, women's literature, modernism, and film. Her theoretical interests lie at the intersections of gender/sexuality, feminism, affect, critical race theory, and metaphysics. Her last co-edited project was Women and Fairness (2021). Melanie Duckworth is Associate professor of English Literature at Østfold University College, Norway. She publishes in the fields of children's literature, Australian literature, and ecocriticism. Her most recent co-edited volume is Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds (2023). Deanna Benjamin teaches college and creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Her creative work can be read in Thimble Literature Magazine, MacQueen's Quinterly Review, The Texas Review, Flash Boulevard, and other venues. Her critical essay "Writing Someone Else's Story" appears in Women and Fairness (2021).
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Johanna M. Wagner, Melanie Duckworth, Deanna Benjamin
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
Wladimir
2 Hope and Despair in the Grey Zone: Unlikely Solidarities and Friendships
in Negotiating Prolonged Incarceration in Sri Lanka's Political Prisons
Vihanga Perera
3 Spacetime, Tone, and the Sublime: Hope and Despair in Djuna Barnes'
Nightwood
Johanna M. Wagner
4 Pessimistic Hope as Rebellion: Fassbinder's Despair and Utopia
Anna Bell
II Societal Matters: Utopian and Dystopian Impulses
5 Trauma Memoir as Dystopian Literature
Deanna Benjamin
6 Climbing Mt. Holyoke: Emily Dickinson, Mary Lyon, and Woman-Centered
Utopias
Aliki Barnstone
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
Paul Petrovic
8 "End. Begin. All the same...": The Ends (And Beginnings) of Worlds in
Netflix's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Miranda Liebel
9 At the End of History: Art Practices in Times and Spaces of Modern
Ruination
Dimitra Gkitsa
III Earthly Matters: Apocalypse and the Anthropocene
10 Norwegian Futurisms: Energy Transitions in Young Adult Ecodystopian
Fiction
Karl Kristian Swane Bambini
11 Animal Voices in the Apocalypse: The Animals in That Country and The
Ghost of the Cock
Melanie Duckworth
12 The Ruins of Holocene: Notes on Climate Change and the Rise of Disaster
Liberalism
Iason Zarikos
13 Optimistic vs Ominous: Competing Rhetorics of Ecological Crisis
John Farnsworth
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Johanna M. Wagner, Melanie Duckworth, Deanna Benjamin
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
Wladimir
2 Hope and Despair in the Grey Zone: Unlikely Solidarities and Friendships
in Negotiating Prolonged Incarceration in Sri Lanka's Political Prisons
Vihanga Perera
3 Spacetime, Tone, and the Sublime: Hope and Despair in Djuna Barnes'
Nightwood
Johanna M. Wagner
4 Pessimistic Hope as Rebellion: Fassbinder's Despair and Utopia
Anna Bell
II Societal Matters: Utopian and Dystopian Impulses
5 Trauma Memoir as Dystopian Literature
Deanna Benjamin
6 Climbing Mt. Holyoke: Emily Dickinson, Mary Lyon, and Woman-Centered
Utopias
Aliki Barnstone
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
Paul Petrovic
8 "End. Begin. All the same...": The Ends (And Beginnings) of Worlds in
Netflix's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Miranda Liebel
9 At the End of History: Art Practices in Times and Spaces of Modern
Ruination
Dimitra Gkitsa
III Earthly Matters: Apocalypse and the Anthropocene
10 Norwegian Futurisms: Energy Transitions in Young Adult Ecodystopian
Fiction
Karl Kristian Swane Bambini
11 Animal Voices in the Apocalypse: The Animals in That Country and The
Ghost of the Cock
Melanie Duckworth
12 The Ruins of Holocene: Notes on Climate Change and the Rise of Disaster
Liberalism
Iason Zarikos
13 Optimistic vs Ominous: Competing Rhetorics of Ecological Crisis
John Farnsworth
Index
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Johanna M. Wagner, Melanie Duckworth, Deanna Benjamin
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
Wladimir
2 Hope and Despair in the Grey Zone: Unlikely Solidarities and Friendships
in Negotiating Prolonged Incarceration in Sri Lanka's Political Prisons
Vihanga Perera
3 Spacetime, Tone, and the Sublime: Hope and Despair in Djuna Barnes'
Nightwood
Johanna M. Wagner
4 Pessimistic Hope as Rebellion: Fassbinder's Despair and Utopia
Anna Bell
II Societal Matters: Utopian and Dystopian Impulses
5 Trauma Memoir as Dystopian Literature
Deanna Benjamin
6 Climbing Mt. Holyoke: Emily Dickinson, Mary Lyon, and Woman-Centered
Utopias
Aliki Barnstone
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
Paul Petrovic
8 "End. Begin. All the same...": The Ends (And Beginnings) of Worlds in
Netflix's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Miranda Liebel
9 At the End of History: Art Practices in Times and Spaces of Modern
Ruination
Dimitra Gkitsa
III Earthly Matters: Apocalypse and the Anthropocene
10 Norwegian Futurisms: Energy Transitions in Young Adult Ecodystopian
Fiction
Karl Kristian Swane Bambini
11 Animal Voices in the Apocalypse: The Animals in That Country and The
Ghost of the Cock
Melanie Duckworth
12 The Ruins of Holocene: Notes on Climate Change and the Rise of Disaster
Liberalism
Iason Zarikos
13 Optimistic vs Ominous: Competing Rhetorics of Ecological Crisis
John Farnsworth
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Johanna M. Wagner, Melanie Duckworth, Deanna Benjamin
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
Wladimir
2 Hope and Despair in the Grey Zone: Unlikely Solidarities and Friendships
in Negotiating Prolonged Incarceration in Sri Lanka's Political Prisons
Vihanga Perera
3 Spacetime, Tone, and the Sublime: Hope and Despair in Djuna Barnes'
Nightwood
Johanna M. Wagner
4 Pessimistic Hope as Rebellion: Fassbinder's Despair and Utopia
Anna Bell
II Societal Matters: Utopian and Dystopian Impulses
5 Trauma Memoir as Dystopian Literature
Deanna Benjamin
6 Climbing Mt. Holyoke: Emily Dickinson, Mary Lyon, and Woman-Centered
Utopias
Aliki Barnstone
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
Paul Petrovic
8 "End. Begin. All the same...": The Ends (And Beginnings) of Worlds in
Netflix's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Miranda Liebel
9 At the End of History: Art Practices in Times and Spaces of Modern
Ruination
Dimitra Gkitsa
III Earthly Matters: Apocalypse and the Anthropocene
10 Norwegian Futurisms: Energy Transitions in Young Adult Ecodystopian
Fiction
Karl Kristian Swane Bambini
11 Animal Voices in the Apocalypse: The Animals in That Country and The
Ghost of the Cock
Melanie Duckworth
12 The Ruins of Holocene: Notes on Climate Change and the Rise of Disaster
Liberalism
Iason Zarikos
13 Optimistic vs Ominous: Competing Rhetorics of Ecological Crisis
John Farnsworth
Index







