Introduction: Dissident Lives, Queer texts, Political Is.

Aude Haffen

1-18

Narrating the Self, Making a World: C. L. R. James, Edward Said, and the Errancy of Postcolonial Life-writing

Adam Spanos

19-51

Dialectics of Love in the ‘Early’ and ‘Late’ Writings of Roland Barthes

Andy Stafford

52-69

Emma Bee Bernstein: Fetishism of Fashion and Vintage Self-portraits

Daniele Pomilio

70-90

An Autotheory of Intertextual Kinship: Ambivalent Bodies in the Work of Maggie Nelson and Paul B. Preciado

Alex Brostoff

91-115

Out of Place, Out of Time: (re)writing the abject body in Ceyenne Doroshow’s Cooking in Heels

Kelsey Davies

116-133

“I just don’t want to be so likeable that anyone wants to rape me”: queering the affects of trauma in Myriam Gurba’s Mean

Gabrielle Adjerad

134-160

The Pianist’s Fingers: Fragments of Desire

Eric Daffron

161-172

Thought Voice[ing] Feel[ing]

Stamatina Dimakopoulou

173-177

She Voices If: On Blindness by José Saramago

Timothy Mathews

178-190

Migration as Self-Narration: Stephanos Stephanides’s Homeless World

Mina Karavanta

191-195

Litany in My Slumber / Postcard

Stephanos Stephanides

196-241

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