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The Routledge History of Love in World Literature and Culture offers a wide-ranging, global rethinking of romantic love. Bringing together scholars from across continents and disciplines, the volume shows how love is imagined, practiced, and contested in different cultural, historical, and political contexts, challenging the idea that love follows a single, universal script.
The collection examines representations of eros across Africa, East Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and the Americas, spanning medieval texts to contemporary novels, film, television, visual art, and theatre. Well-known case studies include So Long a Letter, The God of Small Things, The Arabian Nights, The Forty Rules of Love, as well as works by Olive Schreiner, Gabriel García Márquez, Louise Erdrich, and modern Chinese and Japanese fiction. Rather than treating love as timeless or purely personal, contributors show how it is shaped by gender, religion, colonial histories, nationalism, technology, ecology, and changing social norms. The volume explores transgressive, queer, feminist, posthuman, and more-than-human forms of love, revealing love as a powerful force that both sustains and unsettles communities.
Designed as an accessible and digestible reference, the essays broaden understanding of the cultural politics of emotions for scholars and students in literary and cultural studies, world literature, gender studies, film studies, posthumanism, and the humanities more broadly. It offers a landmark contribution to the study of emotions and global culture for research and teaching alike.
Contents
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
