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Contemporary Revolutions: Turning Back to the Future in 21st-Century Literature and Art

Editat de Professor Susan Stanford Friedman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 apr 2020
Returning to revolution's original meaning of 'cycle',Contemporary Revolutionsexplores how 21st-century writers, artists, and performers re-engage the arts of the past to reimagine a present and future encompassing revolutionary commitments to justice and freedom. Dealing with histories of colonialism, slavery, genocide, civil war, and gender and class inequities, essays examine literature and arts of Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, and the United States. The broad range of contemporary writers and artists considered include fabric artist Ellen Bell; poets Selena Tusitala Marsh and Antje Krog; Syrian artists of the civil war and Sana Yazigi's creative memory web site about the war; street artist Bahia Shehab; theatre installation artist William Kentridge; and the recycles of Virginia Woolf by multi-media artist Kabe Wilson, novelist W. G. Sebald, and the contemporary trans movement.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350160231
ISBN-10: 1350160237
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 12 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Examines artists' responses to topical issues like the Syrian Revolution; misogyny and homophobia in Africa; transgenderism in today's society and the obscurity of our future

Notă biografică

Susan Stanford Friedmanis Hilldale Professor of the Humanities and the Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Her recent books includePlanetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across TimeandComparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses(with Rita Felski). Her work has been translated into ten languages.

Cuprins

List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsBeginningsIntroduction: "The Past in the Present: Temporalities of the Contemporary"Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAChapter 1: "Recycling Revolution: Re-mixingA Room of One's Ownand Black Power in Kabe Wilson's Performance, Installation, and Narrative Art"Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USARecycles: Aesthetics of Unsewing and Blacking OutChapter 2: "Stitch Works: Ellen Bell's Unpicking Aesthetics and Victorian Women's Creative Labor"Susan David Bernstein, Boston University, USAChapter 3: "Make ItNiu: Blacking Out of Albert Wendt'sPouliulitheTusitalaWay"Selina Tusitala Marsh, University of Auckland, New ZealandRevolutions: Arts of ResistanceChapter 4: "Curating the Syrian Revolution Online"miriam cooke, Duke University, USAChapter 5: "A Thousand Times No!: Spray Painting as Resistance and the Visual History of theLam-Alif"Bahia Shehab, American University of Cairo, EgyptRestages: Palimpsests of the PastChapter 6: "The Folds of History in William Kentridge'sBlack BoxTheatre: Sampling German Nazism and Colonialism"Rosemarie Buikema, Utrecht University, The NetherlandsChapter 7: "The Revolutions of Antjie Krog'sLady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse."Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania, USARereads: Then, NowChapter 8: "Repair Work, Despair Work: W. G. Sebald's Contending Modernisms"Elizabeth Abel, University of California, Berkeley, USAChapter 9: "On Rereading Woolf'sOrlandoas Transgender Text"Margaret Homans, Yale University, USAIndex