Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Beginnings Introduction: “The Past in the Present: Temporalities of the Contemporary” Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Chapter 1: “Recycling Revolution: Re-mixing A Room of One’s Own and Black Power in Kabe Wilson’s Performance, Installation, and Narrative Art” Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Recycles: Aesthetics of Unsewing and Blacking Out Chapter 2: “Stitch Works: Ellen Bell’s Unpicking Aesthetics and Victorian Women’s Creative Labor” Susan David Bernstein, Boston University, USA Chapter 3: “Make It Niu: Blacking Out of Albert Wendt’s Pouliuli the Tusitala Way” Selina Tusitala Marsh, University of Auckland, New Zealand Revolutions: Arts of Resistance Chapter 4: “Curating the Syrian Revolution Online” miriam cooke, Duke University, USA Chapter 5: “A Thousand Times No!: Spray Painting as Resistance and the Visual History of the Lam-Alif” Bahia Shehab, American University of Cairo, Egypt Restages: Palimpsests of the Past Chapter 6: “The Folds of History in William Kentridge’s Black Box Theatre: Sampling German Nazism and Colonialism” Rosemarie Buikema, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Chapter 7: “The Revolutions of Antjie Krog’s Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse.” Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania, USA Rereads: Then, Now Chapter 8: “Repair Work, Despair Work: W. G. Sebald’s Contending Modernisms” Elizabeth Abel, University of California, Berkeley, USA Chapter 9: “On Rereading Woolf’s Orlando as Transgender Text” Margaret Homans, Yale University, USA Index

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Focusing on contemporaneity in 21st century literature and art, this book explores how a variety of work from the past is ‘recycled’ to address present issues.

About the Author

Susan Stanford Friedman is 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 include Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time and Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses (with Rita Felski). Her work has been translated into ten languages.