The Routledge History of Love in World Literature and Culture

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 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: Latin America

28.       Latin 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

Biography

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.