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 Fiction

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