{"product_id":"hope-and-kinship-in-contemporary-fiction-moods-and-modes-of-temporality-and-belonging-9798765104194","title":"Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction: Moods and Modes of Temporality and Belonging","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking its cue from an understanding of hope as connoting an organizing temporality, one which is often presumed to be projecting into a future, \u003ci\u003eHope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e challenges this understanding, arguing that hope emerges in practices of relationality in the present, disentangling hope from a necessary correlation with futurity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough close readings of contemporary works, including \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Walking Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSense8, The People in the Trees\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Little Life\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGero Bauer \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of English and Managing Director of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research at the University of T?bingen, Germany.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50868214169874,"sku":"9798765104194","price":142.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7e4d1474-2ea5-45e2-867a-2d20dc1d00b8.jpg?v=1737723423","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hope-and-kinship-in-contemporary-fiction-moods-and-modes-of-temporality-and-belonging-9798765104194","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}