{"product_id":"the-disappearing-act-kopie","title":"An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail","description":"\u003cp\u003eA friendship is a filiation we choose. It holds love and laughter; it can extend our sense of the possible. Moved to honour a form of relation often subordinated to romantic and familial ties, and to explore a part of her own history, Hélène Giannecchini pieces together an alternative genealogy of queer ancestors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn searching and sensitive prose, she sifts the past to bring existences deemed ‘marginal’ into communion with each other, traces of which may remain only in memory and archival fragments. Roving from Casa Susanna, a space of freedom from persecution in McCarthyite North America, to the diary of a man living with HIV in France, and to the life and work of pioneering lesbian photographer Donna Gottschalk, each narrative counters oblivion through loving acts of witness. A slantwise gathering of queer life and activism in the twentieth century, interspersed with images encountered by chance, An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail establishes friendship as a vital political force and offers a moving testament to its liberatory power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHélène Giannecchini\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, curator and lecturer in history and contemporary art theory at the University of Lille. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAlix Cléo Roubaud: A Portrait in \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFragments\u003c\/i\u003e, tr. Thea Petrou, \u003ci\u003eVoir de ses propres yeux\u003c\/i\u003e [Seeing With Your Own Eyes] and \u003ci\u003eAn Army of Lovers Cannot Fail\u003c\/i\u003e, all published in France by Éditions du Seuil.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53783726457179,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/8951\/5850\/files\/zabriskie_AnArmyofLoversCannotFail.jpg?v=1786715373","url":"https:\/\/zabriskie.de\/en\/products\/the-disappearing-act-kopie","provider":"Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur","version":"1.0","type":"link"}