Gero Bauer is Associate Professor of English and Managing Director of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Following a comprehensive engagement with theoretical underpinnings, his close readings are meticulously crafted, offering a pleasurable reading experience.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Hope and KinshipPart I. What Comes After: Temporality and Belonging in Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Fiction1. Radical solidarity: The (anti-)futuristic politics of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road2. ‘No more kid stuff’: Monstrous kinship in AMC’s The Walking DeadPart II. Beyond Time and Space: Queering Hope and Globalizing Kinship in Contemporary Speculative Fiction3. ‘What is an ocean but a multitude of drops’: Metafiction and universal kinship in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas4. ‘I am also a we’: Affect, simultaneity, and the global imagination in Netflix’ Sense8Part III. Hysterical Pessimism: Contingent Hope and the Proliferation of the Present in the Novels of Hanya Yanagihara5. Moral matters: Power, coloniality, and narrative in The People in the Trees6. Beyond repair: Friendship and the end of hope in A Little LifeCodaReferencesIndex

Gero Bauer is Associate Professor of English and Managing Director of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Following a comprehensive engagement with theoretical underpinnings, his close readings are meticulously crafted, offering a pleasurable reading experience.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Hope and KinshipPart I. What Comes After: Temporality and Belonging in Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Fiction1. Radical solidarity: The (anti-)futuristic politics of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road2. ‘No more kid stuff’: Monstrous kinship in AMC’s The Walking DeadPart II. Beyond Time and Space: Queering Hope and Globalizing Kinship in Contemporary Speculative Fiction3. ‘What is an ocean but a multitude of drops’: Metafiction and universal kinship in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas4. ‘I am also a we’: Affect, simultaneity, and the global imagination in Netflix’ Sense8Part III. Hysterical Pessimism: Contingent Hope and the Proliferation of the Present in the Novels of Hanya Yanagihara5. Moral matters: Power, coloniality, and narrative in The People in the Trees6. Beyond repair: Friendship and the end of hope in A Little LifeCodaReferencesIndex

Gero Bauer is Associate Professor of English and Managing Director of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Following a comprehensive engagement with theoretical underpinnings, his close readings are meticulously crafted, offering a pleasurable reading experience.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Hope and KinshipPart I. What Comes After: Temporality and Belonging in Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Fiction1. Radical solidarity: The (anti-)futuristic politics of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road2. ‘No more kid stuff’: Monstrous kinship in AMC’s The Walking DeadPart II. Beyond Time and Space: Queering Hope and Globalizing Kinship in Contemporary Speculative Fiction3. ‘What is an ocean but a multitude of drops’: Metafiction and universal kinship in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas4. ‘I am also a we’: Affect, simultaneity, and the global imagination in Netflix’ Sense8Part III. Hysterical Pessimism: Contingent Hope and the Proliferation of the Present in the Novels of Hanya Yanagihara5. Moral matters: Power, coloniality, and narrative in The People in the Trees6. Beyond repair: Friendship and the end of hope in A Little LifeCodaReferencesIndex