As far back as Thomas More's Utopia and Francis Bacon's New
Atlantis, the Pacific Ocean has inspired literary creations of
promising worlds. Hope at Sea asks how literary writers have more
recently conceived the future of ocean living. In doing so, it
provides a new perspective on art and imagination in the face of
enormous environmental change. Drawing together ecocriticism,
theories of hope, and literary analysis, this book explores how
literary writers evoke hope in engaging with environmental
upheavals that are reshaping life in the Pacific Ocean. Teresa
Shewry considers contemporary poetry, short stories, novels, art,
and journalistic pieces from Australia, New Zealand, Hawai'i, and
other ocean sites, examining their imaginative accounts of present
life and future living in places where humans coexist with
environmental loss: rivers that no longer reach the sea, dwindling
populations of ocean life, the effects of nuclear weapons testing,
and more. These works are connected by their views of a future that
includes hope. Until now, hope has never been theorized in a
direct, sustained way in ecocriticism. Hope at Sea makes an
argument for hope as a lens for creative and critical confrontation
with environmental disruptions and the resulting sense of loss. It
also reflects on the critical approaches that hope as an analytic
category opens up for the study of environmental literature. With
hope as a critical perspective, Shewry develops a method for
reading environmental literature: literary writers create new ways
to apprehend existing environmental realities and craft stories
about seas, forests, cities, and rivers that could be-not as
literal plans but as ways of imagining promising lives in the
present world and in the world to come.
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