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How do stories shape who we are and who we might become? Dreaming Forward explores narratives' transformative power across centuries and genres. You'll discover how storytelling constructs identity, challenges belonging, and reimagines social worlds. Through chapters examining Indigenous futurities, queer temporalities, feminist utopias, and maternal narratives, this collection demonstrates that storytelling is never neutral: it can liberate or oppress, empower or exclude. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and critical frameworks, these essays reveal how literary texts assemble new ways of being-with-others. Essential reading for scholars and students interested in narrative's ethical stakes and world-making potential.
Contributors include: Anna Caterino, Carla Tempestoso, Debora Sarnelli, Andrea Lupi, Serena Ammendola, Carolina Pisapia, Lucio De Capitani, Elena Ogliari
Contributors include: Anna Caterino, Carla Tempestoso, Debora Sarnelli, Andrea Lupi, Serena Ammendola, Carolina Pisapia, Lucio De Capitani, Elena Ogliari
Price: $107.00
Pages: 190
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: DQR Studies in Literature
Publication Date:
17 December 2026
ISBN: 9789004774186
Format: Hardcover
Elena Ogliari is Associate Professor of English at Pegaso University (Naples). She works in the field of Irish Studies. Her most recent publications focus on motherhood in Emilie Pine's fiction (2026) and on contemporary civil poetry (2025).
Anna Pasolini is Associate Professor of English at San Raffaele University (Rome). She studies contemporary Anglophone cultures, gender and intersectional identities in narratives spanning fairy tale, noir, and speculative fiction. She authored Bodies That Bleed (2016) and co-authored Corpi magici (2021).
Carla Tempestoso is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Calabria (Arcavacata). Her scholarship examines Bluestocking Circle writers, and she serves as editor-in-chief of Margins. Her work spans gender, migration, literature and digital humanities, with international publications.
Anna Pasolini is Associate Professor of English at San Raffaele University (Rome). She studies contemporary Anglophone cultures, gender and intersectional identities in narratives spanning fairy tale, noir, and speculative fiction. She authored Bodies That Bleed (2016) and co-authored Corpi magici (2021).
Carla Tempestoso is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Calabria (Arcavacata). Her scholarship examines Bluestocking Circle writers, and she serves as editor-in-chief of Margins. Her work spans gender, migration, literature and digital humanities, with international publications.