"Hope punk" is not an interesting category for media analysis and most literature on it fundamentally misunderstands what the *-punk genres are supposed to be, in this essay I will…
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"Hope punk" is not an interesting category for media analysis and most literature on it fundamentally misunderstands what the *-punk genres are supposed to be, in this essay I will…
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But seriously: the original framing for the term reads less as a genre and more as a presentation to the form "I'm tired of grimdark stories," which is fine, but "not grimdark" is not really a great category descriptively. It's like saying you want "grimpunk" because you're tired of neosincerity.
If what you want is "finding hope is punk" then I direct you to the _entire early body of 'punk' literature_ before it became an Aesthetic
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"How do you survive and find life and hope in the face of oppressive capitalism, unchecked corporate greed, and abject hopelessness? When the surveilance state seeks to define your existence" Cyberpunk in a nutshell
"How do you find hope when your entire utopian society comes crashing down around your ears?": Solarpunk 101.
That _is_ the genre.
If your "genre" encompasses handmaid's tale, harry potter, and parks & rec then what you are looking for is probably not a genre but something else.
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@hrefna I agree. "Gamechanger" by LX Beckett is the best example of the genre that I've seen... What's yours?
