Loving Others, Othering Love is a multi-modal lyric essay that investigates the interdependence of love and racism. It is a text that mines the multitude of ways that each requires the other in efforts to normalize or mask white privilege. Here, Lee marshals her analyses out of such material as Swedish newspaper reporting on racist hate crimes, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Princess Bari, Ovid, and the manifesto of mass shooter Elliot Rodger. Startling in its elegant incisions into the literary, the popular, the public, and the mythological, Loving Others, Othering Love enacts a critical poetics of assemblage in order to reveal the racist duplicity of love.

The cover of the book with the debossed metallic emblem that dominates the front, together with the pattern of the endpapers, alludes to the passport. It marks nationality and citizenship, but not necessarily belonging. The book contains several production details, all of which are in direct dialogue with the content.

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Sandra Praun & Oscar Guermouche

Mara Lee

Translation: Sarah Clyne Sundberg, Jennifer Hayashida

Language review: Jennifer Hayashida, Bettina Schultz, Sandra Praun, Oscar Guermouche

Rotolito / Nava Press, Milan

Mara Lee