Love and the Politics of Intimacy: Bodies, Boundaries, Liberation

ISBN-13: 9781501387371 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

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List of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Stanislava Dikova, University of Essex, UK; Wendy McMahon, University of East Anglia, UK; and Jordan Savage, University of Essex, UK Part 1: Love and communities 1. ‘Love is a battle, love is a war’: James Baldwin’s use of love to represent race, gender and sexuality in segregated America Daniele Nunziata, University of Oxford, UK 2. Liberating the Victorian politics of love through Jack the Lass and Anne Lister Vicky Panossian and Salma Yassine, Central European University, Austria 3. The lover and the tribe Ian Davidson, University College Dublin, Ireland 4. A love letter to white friends Deya Mukherjee, Independent Scholar, UK Part 2: Intimate bodies 5. The sharper end of love: When sex is painful, how is intimate love navigated? Reflections from a qualitative study in England and France Hannah Loret, Nottingham Trent University, UK 6. Kathy Acker’s voice in Blood and Guts in High School and Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘desiring-machines’ Gemma Curto, University of Sheffield, UK 7. Digital love: Love through the screen/of the screen Daniel O’Brien, University of Essex, UK 8. #BlackLove and dating sites: A South African perspective of cyber-love and cyber-ethics during Covid-19 Adelina Mbinjama, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa Part 3: Love’s boundaries 9. Imploding fireworks: Love and self-knowledge in the contemporary Italian sentimental novel Francesca Pierini, University of Basel, Switzerland 10. Lovespeak, love novels and the onset of modernity Gary Kelly, University of Alberta, Canada 11. Love as theoretical object in Marguerite Duras’s writings Crisia Constantine, Griffith University, Australia 12. Love without object Lauren Edwards, York University, Canada 13. Post-humanism and the road to castle Frankisstein Lawrence Quill, San Jose State University, USA Index