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 B''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 Garibn'me - Mustafa Özagaç; 18. Romance and Neo-Sufism in Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love - Çigdem Bugdayci; 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 - J'nderson Albino Coswosk; Index.