Where are the Lesbian Rom-Coms? Building Reparative Narratives Through Fan Creativity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword 9
4. Introduction: Affective Worldmaking: Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality 13
5. Selected Poems 45
6. Senses of Affective Worldmaking
7. Affective Assemblages: Queer Worldmaking as Critically Reparative Reading 49
8. What World is Made?: Gender and Affect in Three Life Moments 63
9. Why Our Knees Kiss 71
10. Affective Worldmaking in Times of Crisis: An Interview 75
11. Affective Be/Longing: Redefining Public Spheres
12. Textual Encounters of Hope and Be/Longing: Science Fiction and Trans Worldmaking 85
13. Labor of Love and Other Stories: Post-Yugoslav Feminist Narratives and Artbased Practices 101
14. Damir Arsenijević in Conversation with Šejla Šehabović 119
15. “We need to imagine a new kind of woman”: Narrating Identity in Postwar Women’s Magazines in Japan, 1945-1955 127
16. 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 139
17. Counternarratives and Community Building
18. Recognizing Better Selves: A Reparative Reading of Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Queer Literature 149
19. Where are the Lesbian Rom-Coms? Building Reparative Narratives Through Fan Creativity 165
20. Shaping Gender and Kinship Relationships in Recent Croatian Satirical Fiction 175
21. Quick Media Feminisms and the Affective Worldmaking of Hashtag Activism 185
22. Mediated Narratives as Companions 201
23. “Plan B” 209
24. Gender, Affect, and Politics: A Three-Part Radio Series 219
25. Contributors 221
26. Index 229