Routledge History of Love in World Literature and Culture

Megan Moore is Professor of French and Affiliate Faculty of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri, USA, where her research focuses on identity and community in the medieval Mediterranean. Author of The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean (2021), her current focus is on posthumanism, disability, and emotional communities.F. Fiona Moolla is Professor of Literature in English and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She specializes in African and World Literatures with a focus on emotions, especially romantic love.

• List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Eros in World Literatures and Cultures - Megan Moore and F. Fiona Moolla; Part I: Africa; 2. Africa: Introduction - Naomi Nkealah; 3. The Art of Love: An analysis of Gladys Mgudlandlu’s The Newly Weds - Dineo Diphofa; 4. “The Last Man a Woman should Marry is the Man she Loves”: Romantic love in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter - Theresah Patrine Ennin; 5. Unbound: Transgressive Love in Olive Schreiner’s Undine and The Story of An African Farm - Courtney L. Davids; 6. “Phew! The life of a woman”: Examining the Politics of Love, Intimacy and Marriage in Goretti Kyomuhendo’s Whispers from Vera - Lynda Gichanda Spencer; Part II: East Asia; 7. East Asia: Introduction - Halvor Eifring; 8. Envisioning an Emotional Revolution: Affective Politics and a Transcultural Genealogy of “Love Force” in Modern China - Kexin Zhang; 9. Love and Negative Feeling in An Dun’s and Zeng Nianping’s Longing for a Feeling of True Love - Sijia Yao; 10. In the Name of Love: The White-Collar Woman and Her Reclamation by the State in Post-Socialist Chinese TV Dramas - Mengjun Li; 11. Indeterminate Love as Feminist Intervention: Ling Shuhua’s Short Stories and Feminisms in 1920s China - Yihan Lulu Wang; 12. Eat A Life, Make A Life: Posthuman Love in Murata Sayaka’s “Life Ceremony” - Yue Wang; 13. Loving as “Your Self”: The Parasocial Romantic Relationship in Esther Yi’s Y/N; Astrid Schwegler-Castañer; Part III: Middle East; 14. Middle East: Introduction - Cameron Cross; 15. Layla Majnun: The Incurable Madness of ‘Udhri Love - Ayub Sheik; 16. Divine in Carnal Mirrors: Unveiling the Sacred Through Love and Eroticism in The Arabian Nights - Sayed Elsisi; 17. The Lover and Beloved in Turkish-Islamic Literature: An Analysis of Eight Loving Couples in the Medieval Masnavi Garibnâme - Mustafa Özağaç; 18. Romance and Neo-Sufism in Elif Shafak’s The Forty Rules of Love - Çiğdem Buğdaycı; Part IV: South Asia; 19. South Asia: Introduction - Maitrayee Misra; 20. “The same Mother India has given birth to all of us, isn’t it?” Thrity Umrigar’s Honor (2022) and “Love Jihad” - Khedidja Chergui; 21. “Love that dare not speak its name”: Unmuting Eros in A. K. Ramanujan's Kannada Folktales - Abhaya and Rolla Das; 22. “Love, Madness, Hope…” in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things - Pooja Sancheti; Part V: Anglo-America; 23. Anglo-America: Introduction - Michael Gratzke; 24. A Cartography of More-Than-Human Love - Delphi Carstens; 25. Love Medicine: Louise Erdrich’s Erotics of Belonging - Jordan Savage; 26. Transhumanism and the Soul of Romantic Love in a Digital World - Sandra McCalla; 27. My Love is Atomic: The Literary Dimensions of Reconsidering Romantic Relations in Jennie Fields’ Atomic Love - Inna Häkkinen; Part VI: South America; 28. South America: Introduction - Álvaro Antonio Bernal; 29. The Theoretical Mechanics of Love”: Eros, Economics and Uneven Loves in Gabriel García Márquez’s Narratives - Kevin M. Anzzolin; 30. Uncovering Military Archives and the Censorship of Queer Desire: The Anatomy of Amphibious Love in the Brazilian Theatrical Adaptation of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room - Jânderson Albino Coswosk; Index