Gestures

Foreword: on gesture - Anne Boyer
Introduction: writing gesture - Alice Butler, Nell Osborne, and Hilary White

Part I: Scrawl
1 The intelligent hand - Natalie Ferris
2 Without word without voice blind gesture - Kim Dhillon
3 'Language, of course, being gesture': experiments in/of the archive - Hannah Van Hove
4 Writing dreaming drawing: the ungraspable work of Renee Gladman - Hilary White
Part II: Caress
5 Perversions at her adolescent fingertips, or, Francesca Woodman's autoerotic attentions: an essay-caress - Alice Butler
6 The massage is the medium - Joanna Walsh
7 Et in arcadia xerox: the work of Pati Hill - Luke Roberts
Part III: Mutter
8 My chimeras - Daniela Cascella
9 Speaking silence - Emma Bolland
10 Mamaiaith: poetics in commotion - Nia Davies
11 Cliche is the sediment of sentiment that collects in my ear - Daisy Lafarge
12 'The strength of the gesture to move like a poem': Layli Long Soldier's poetics of relationality - Catherine Gander
Part IV: Scratch
13 My skin is a riot: critical and embodied writing about living in co-occupation with a chronic health condition - Maria Fusco
14 Cutting into unmarked pleasures - Fatema Abdoolcarim
15 Learning from silent teachers: on researching at a teaching mortuary - Naomi Pearce
16 Returning to the scene of hurt: violent repetition and disturbance in Anna Kavan's Ice - Nell Osborne
Part V: Reach
17 Gestures for feminist transmissions: Le Nemesiache's psycho-fable - Giulia Damiani
18 Between the departures and arrivals: embodied experience, photography, and writing - Azadeh Fatehrad
19 Feminism's un/common rituals: Ana Mendieta's affective afterlife - Hatty Nestor
20 'I want a literature that is not made from literature': on the gesture-text of Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue - Joey Frances
Part VI: Dialogues on gesture
21 'Flight [Gestures] in a Galaxy of Centres': a correspondence - Nisha Ramayya and Nat Raha
22 So many social things happen with a bent head: reading, writing, scrolling on phones, eating at tables or from laps, drawing or making with hands, masturbating - Alison Ballance, Carl Gent, and Jessa Mockridge
23 In excess of the one, two - Erin Manning and Jade de Montserrat
24 Gesture, a build - Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart

Afterword - Kaye Mitchell
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