登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction
Gero Bauer
其他書名
Moods and Modes of Temporality and Belonging
出版Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2024-01-11
主題Literary Criticism / Comparative LiteratureLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / LGBTQLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / GeneralSocial Science / Popular Culture
ISBN9798765104200
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XtbkEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋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.

Taking its cue from an understanding of hope as connoting an organizing temporality, one which is often presumed to be projecting into a future, Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction challenges this understanding, arguing that hope emerges in practices of relationality in the present, disentangling hope from a necessary correlation with futurity.

Through close readings of contemporary works, including The Road, The Walking Dead, Cloud Atlas, Sense8, The People in the Trees and A Little Life, Gero Bauer investigates how these texts explore structures of kinship as creative and affective practices of belonging and care that claim spaces beyond the heterosexual, reproductive nuclear family. In this context, fictional figurations of the child – often considered the bearer of the future – are of particular interest.

Through these interventions into definitions of and reflections on fictional manifestations of hope and kinship, Bauer's analyses intersect with queer theory, new materialism and postcritical approaches to literature and cultural studies, moving towards counterintuitively hopeful readings of the present moment.