Affective Worldmaking

Silvia Schultermandl (she/her), born in 1977, is a professor and chair of American studies at Universität Münster. She researches various themes in transnational studies, American literature and culture, as well as family and kinship studies. Jana Aresin (she/her), born in 1992, is a doctoral researcher in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. She researches the cultural and media history of the early Cold War (1945-1960) in comparative perspective, with a regional focus on the United States and Japan. In 2020-21 she was Elisabeth-List Junior Fellow at the Coordination Centre for Gender Studies and Equal Opportunity at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Si Sophie Pages Whybrew (she/her, they/them), born in 1987, is a senior scientist for gender and diversity studies at Kunst-Universität Graz. They completed their dissertation on »Affective Trans Worldmaking in Contemporary Science Fiction« at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. From 2020-21, they were an Elisabeth-List Junior Fellow at the Coordination Centre for Gender Studies in the research project »Literary Negotiations of Affective and Gendered Belongings.« Dijana Simic (she/her), born in 1988, is a lecturer of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian literary and cultural studies in the Department of Slavic Studies at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Currently, she is completing her PhD project on gender, sexuality, and intimate counterpublics in recent Bosnian-Herzegovinian prose. Her teaching and research focus on migration, gender, and memory studies in the former Yugoslav context.

• 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 ejla ehabović; "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.

»Ein überzeugendes Buch, das anhand vielfältiger Beispiele auch eine breite Argumentation über die Notwendigkeit von Gegenöffentlichkeiten entfaltet. Dabei verliert es marginalisierte und benachteiligte gesellschaftliche Gruppen als soziale Gemeinschaften ebenso wenig aus dem Blick wie die Singularitäten individueller Mitglieder und ihrer spezifischen Erfahrungen von Ablehnung oder Stereotypisierung.«