Left Alone: On Solitude and Loneliness amid Collective Struggle

Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn, Patrick Anderson (eds.)

Left Alone brings together 13 authors and 6 visual artists from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and North America to reflect on an psycho-political issue that has not yet been explicitly addressed through a left political lens, that is, Left Loneliness. Says Feminist writer Sara Ahmed: “Loneliness might be what we are threatened with if we persist in being or doing what we are being or doing.”

Given that continuing and deepening our multiple ongoing struggles for liberation will depend on our constant ability to (re-)create, sustain and care for both our individual selves and the communities that we are a part of, the aim of Left Alone is to contribute to the strengthening of these personal collectivities in action in-against-and beyond capitalism, colonialism and heteropatriarchy by inviting the comrade-readers into what will ideally be a deeply stimulating and enabling personal-political engagement with the texts and images hailing from countries such as Argentina, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Guinea-Bissau/Portugal, Turkey/Kurdistan, Jamaica, Italy, the UK, Germany and the USA. As Lena Grace Anyuolo from Kenya puts it, “My sisters and brothers, Come, Let us gather, To lay the structures for a joyous existence.”

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