Affective Worldmaking : : Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality / / ed. by Dijana Simic, Si Sophie Pages Whybrew, Jana Aresin, Silvia Schultermandl.

• MitwirkendeR: Aresin, Jana,; Arsenijević, Damir,; Bašić, Adisa, 1979-; Breger, Claudia,; Cvetkovich, Ann, 1957-; Friedman, May, 1975-; Gačnik, Marko,; Hansen-Kokoruš, Renate,; Jansová, Iveta,; Mouton, Deborah D. E. E. P.,; Whybrew, Si Sophie Pages,; Paul, Heike,; Petrović, Jelena,; Schultermandl, Silvia,; Simić, Dijana,; Šehabović, Šejla, 1977-
• HerausgeberIn: Aresin, Jana,; Whybrew, Si Sophie Pages,; Schultermandl, Silvia,; Simic, Dijana,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Gender Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)

What makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in which ways can counterpublics can be created through narrative? This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power of narrative in lite...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction: Affective Worldmaking: Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality
• Selected Poems
• Senses of Affective Worldmaking
• Affective Assemblages: Queer Worldmaking as Critically Reparative Reading
• What World is Made?: Gender and Affect in Three Life Moments
• Why Our Knees Kiss
• Affective Worldmaking in Times of Crisis: An Interview
• Affective Be/Longing: Redefining Public Spheres
• Textual Encounters of Hope and Be/Longing: Science Fiction and Trans Worldmaking
• Labor of Love and Other Stories: Post-Yugoslav Feminist Narratives and Artbased Practices
• Damir Arsenijević in Conversation with Šejla Šehabović
• “We need to imagine a new kind of woman”: Narrating Identity in Postwar Women’s Magazines in Japan, 1945-1955
• Notes on the Family Separation Narrative in American Literature: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Lost Children Archive
• Counternarratives and Community Building
• Recognizing Better Selves: A Reparative Reading of Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Queer Literature
• Where are the Lesbian Rom-Coms? Building Reparative Narratives Through Fan Creativity
• Shaping Gender and Kinship Relationships in Recent Croatian Satirical Fiction
• Quick Media Feminisms and the Affective Worldmaking of Hashtag Activism
• Mediated Narratives as Companions
• “Plan B”
• Gender, Affect, and Politics: A Three-Part Radio Series
• Contributors
• Index