Description
Book SynopsisIn 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 colonialismall 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; in
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“This book is overflowing with tears and besos, a cascade of longing and desire. Asma Abbas is a dil phaink: she throws her heart into the world and it opens the way for her mind and ours. This is a work of generous courage and greatness of soul.” -- Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania
“This erudite, beautifully written book brings together how ‘love’ and ‘terror’ constitute an ironic
coupling through which political nihilism faces the inexplicable power of hearts thrown into the world of commitment and deed. There is no love—as, too, there is no politics—without risk. Asma Abbas has thus offered us a steady stream of wisdom in this work whose gifts transcend the last page turned.” -- Lewis R. Gordon, Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies and author of Fear of a Black Consciousness
“Abbas has produced a masterpiece of ‘another love’! A timely love letter to the seeker to look inward and sideways for ‘another love.’ The text embodies the anticolonial politics of the unrequited. It’s an unapologetically bold plea directly to you, to all of us, to own up to the empire’s terror that tethers itself to a certain love that is necropolitical. Abbas’s writing carries a deep and more intimate connection with the reader showing that unrequited politics is never interrupted by distance nor by time. . . . A deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in anticolonial/decolonial aesthetics!” -- Anna M. Agathangelou, York University, Toronto
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Spare(d) Fulfilments, Please: Love, Study, History
Chapter 2 Undulating Love: Enfolding the Margins
Chapter 3 Colonial Loves and Heimlich Manoeuvres
Chapter 4 Anticolonial Maps for Lost Lovers
Interlude From Cosmopolitan Modernity to Necropolitical Austerity: Episodes in the Life of Capital and Colony
Chapter 5 The Sanguine Subjects of Love and Terror
Chapter 6 Love Stories as Dissensus: Aesthetics Out of the Postcolony
Chapter 7 Materialists in Love
Chapter 8 Invitations, Deferrals, and Refusals: The Many Hospitalities of Anticolonial Love
