Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life by Lee, Seulghee

Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life

In Other Lovings, Seulghee Lee traces the presence and plenitude of love embedded in Black and Asian...
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Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life by Lee, Seulghee

Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life

$173.73

Other Lovings: An Afroasian American Theory of Life

$173.73
Author: Seulghee Lee
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In Other Lovings, Seulghee Lee traces the presence and plenitude of love embedded in Black and Asian American literatures and cultures to reveal their irreducible power to cohere minoritarian social life. Bringing together Black studies, Asian American studies, affect theory, critical theory, and queer of color critique, Lee examines the bonds of love in works by Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, David Henry Hwang, Gayl Jones, Fred Moten, Adrian Tomine, and Charles Yu. He attends to the ontological force of love in popular culture, investigating Asian American hip-hop and sport through readings of G Yamazawa, Year of the Ox, and Jeremy Lin, as well as in Black public culture through bell hooks, Martin Luther King Jr., and Cornel West.

By assessing love's positive function in these works, Lee argues against critical regimes, such as Afropessimism and racial melancholia, that center negativity. In revealing what Black and Asian American traditions share in their positive configurations of being and collectivity, and in their responses to the overarching logic of white supremacy, Other Lovings suggests possibilities for thinking beyond sociological opposition and historical difference and toward political coalition and cultural affinity. Ultimately, Other Lovings argues for a counter-ontology of love--its felt presence, its relational possibilities, and its lived practices.

Author: Seulghee Lee
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 03/12/2025
Pages: 202
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780814215098


Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2025

About the Author
Seulghee Lee (he/him) is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English at the University of South Carolina. He is coeditor, with Rebecca Kumar, of Queer and Femme Gazes in AfroAsian American Visual Culture.


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