Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. Hope in the Shadow of Sorrow: Ecology in Oceanic Literatures -- 1. Endurance, Ecology, Empire -- 2. In Search of Rain: Water, Hope, and the Everyday -- 3. Hope in the Poetry of a Fractured Ocean -- 4. In a Strange Ocean: Imagining Futures with Others -- 5. Utopia Haunted: Loss and Hope in the Nuclear Pacific -- Conclusion. An Unsettling Ocean: Hope and Climate Change -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z