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Another Love: A Politics of the Unrequited

Another Love: A Politics of the Unrequited

Abbas, Asma

Hardcover

Literary CriticismCognitionGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1498576753
ISBN13: 9781498576758
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Oct 15 2018
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

In a time when our loves feel conscripted and exhausted by what we often do not remember desiring, Another Love: A Politics of the Unrequited explores the form, method, imperatives, and inflections of love in the global post colony, and offers a way to re-apprehend and re-inscribe love in an anticolonial, materialist, and nonfascist politics and aesthetics. The figure of the unrequited is invoked as a symptom of a brutally loveless yet effusively sentimentalized era, and also as an ineluctable yet very concrete political location in the face of both the intensifying external realities of war, occupation, apartheid, austerity, and terror, as well as the increasingly normalized internalizations of ordinary imperialism, nationalism, neoliberalism, fascism, and colonialism--all of which seem bent on extinguishing the possibility of relation itself. The book asks that we look at practices of love and other material labors that yield and sustain these realities within complex lifeworlds; indeed, those which sustain entire systems of our subjection, extraction, and disposability--such as colonialism, capitalism, liberalism, and fascism--as lifeworlds, especially when given, dominant, forms of recognition, affection, embrace, and belonging are unacceptable or even repulsive.

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