hopepunk
English
Etymology
hope + -punk
Noun
hopepunk (uncountable)
- A genre of speculative fiction with an emphasis on optimism, compassion, or non-violence.
- Antonym: grimdark
- 2019, Izzy Lyons, "BBC jumps on 'hopepunk' trend with new positive podcast for millennials who don't want 'dark' dramas", The Telegraph, 9 June 2019:
- Hopepunk holds particular resonance to the youth of today because it touches upon how their lives "are precariously close to dystopic visions but who need to tell and hear stories of triumph in adversity, not defeat by cruelty", he added.
- 2019, Stuart Heritage, "In need of relentless optimism? The 10 best ‘hopepunk’ shows to binge now", The Guardian, 10 June 2019:
- Doctor Who has always been hopepunk in spirit – it’s essentially a series about a non-violent crimefighter, after all – but its most recent series was its most hopepunk yet.
- 2020, Jennifer Sieck, "Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum: Octavia E. Butler's Typewriter as Time Machine", The Washington Informer, 17 September 2020 - 23 September 2020, page 38:
- From Afrofuturism to hopepunk, many continue to draw on Butler's vision of a future where Blackness and Black people not only persist, but help bring worlds into being.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hopepunk.
References
- “hopepunk”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.