Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Hope and kinship
Part I What comes after: Temporality and belonging in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction
1 Radical solidarity: The (anti-)futuristic politics of Cormac McCarthy's The Road
2 'No more kid stuff': Monstrous kinship in AMC's The Walking Dead
Part II Beyond time and space: Queering hope and globalizing kinship in contemporary speculative fiction
3 'What is an ocean but a multitude of drops': Metafiction and universal kinship in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas

4 'I am also a we': Affect, simultaneity, and the global imagination in Netflix's Sense8
Part III Hysterical pessimism: Contingent hope and the proliferation of the present in the novels of Hanya Yanagihara
5 Moral matters: Power, coloniality, and narrative in The People in the Trees
6 Beyond repair: Friendship and the end of hope in A Little Life
Coda
References
Index