- Social action, Social change, Hope
A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come.
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Spare, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- First published
- April 2004
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Pendo Verlag GmbH, Angle Editorial, Siren Yayınları
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, tur, German
- ISBN
- 9781847676832
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“On January 18, 1915, six months into the First World War, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, "The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think."”
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