Hope Out of Stock: Critical and Melancholic Hope in Climate Fiction Doyle, Briohny 2021, Hope Out of Stock: Critical and Melancholic Hope in Climate Fiction. In McKenzie, J and Patulny, R (ed), Dystopian Emotions Emotional Landscapes and Dark Futures, Bristol University Press,, pp.159-175. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Hope Out of Stock: Critical and Melancholic Hope in Climate Fiction Author(s) Doyle, Briohny orcid.org/0000-0003-3036-0608 Title of book Dystopian Emotions Emotional Landscapes and Dark Futures Editor(s) McKenzie, J Patulny, R Publication date 2021 Start page 159 End page 175 Total pages 16 Publisher Bristol University Press Keyword(s) Social Science Summary This edited collection offers an original investigation of into the changing landscape of emotion in dark and uncertain times. Chapter: Science fiction, dystopian, and disaster genres have imagined environmental crisis however these texts often deploy apocalyptic narrative structure in which near-total catastrophe precedes revelation of a new world for an elect. Horizons of hope and salvation, though seductive for writers and readers alike, too often reinforce progress-oriented ends, which frame the survival of individual humans as hope more broadly. On the other hand, narratives both literary and political, which refuse to offer hope, are criticised as nihilistic or promoting a politics of despair. This paper considers the position of hope in relation to climate change fiction via two novels, Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour, and James Badley's Clade. I argue these texts eschew reductive or deferred forms of hope and centre precarity, interconnectivity, and alliances between human and nonhuman bodies and systems, sketching possibilities for life and death in catastrophes, past, present, and future. ISBN 1529214548 9781529214543 Indigenous content off Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30162471 Document type: Book Chapter Collection: School of Communication and Creative Arts Related Links Link Description Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 14 Feb 2022, 09:32:34 EST Mon, 14 Feb 2022, 15:34:22 EST Sat, 12 Mar 2022, 05:03:28 EST Wed, 11 May 2022, 09:45:03 EST Wed, 11 May 2022, 13:21:24 EST Wed, 11 May 2022, 14:45:15 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 12 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 14 Feb 2022, 09:32:34 EST