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Contemporary revolutions : turning back to the future in 21st-century literature and art

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic / Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 245 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781350045293
  • 9781350045323
  • 1350045322
  • 9781350045316
  • 1350045314
Other title:
  • Back to the future in 21st-century literature and art
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN780.5
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Contents:
Intro; Title Page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Part 1 Beginnings; Introduction: The Past in the Present: Temporalities of the Contemporary; The Temporality of the Contemporary; Beginnings; Recycles: Aesthetics of Unsewing and Blacking Out; Revolutions: Arts of Resistance; Restages: Palimpsests of the Past; Rereads: Then, Now; Why Woolf?; Endings; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 1 Recycling Revolution: Re-mixing A Room of One's Own and Black Power in Kabe Wilson's Performance, Installation, and Narrative Art; Recycling, Re-mix, Revolution--Recycling A Room of One's OwnRe-Mixing Feminism, Queering Mary Carmichael; Revolution: Sampling Black Power; Re-ordering A Room of One's Own; All's Well That Ends Well: A Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Part 2 Recycles: Aesthetics of Unsewing and Blacking Out; Chapter 2 Stitch Works: Ellen Bell's Unpicking Aesthetics and Victorian Women's Creative Labor; Bell's Unpicking Aesthetics and Victorian Stitchers; Vibrant Assemblages; Unpicking Literary Text; Assemblages of Charlotte Bronte; Performing Stitches: Oubliette; Re-stitching: A Wrapping Up; Notes; Works Cited --
Summary: "An exploration of how 21st-century writers, artists, and performers forge a new concept of contemporaneity, this book shows how their work re-purposes fiction, poetry, and paintings of the past. Returning to revolution's original meaning of 'cycle', Contemporary Revolutions examines how African, European, and Middle Eastern literature and the arts addresses the violence and inequities of the present. Friedman brings together essays on a broad range of artists and topics: artists including Kabe Wilson, fabric artist Ellen Bell, graphic designer Sana Yazigi; writers such as W.G. Sebald and poet Selina Tusitala Marsh and their reworking of authors Virginia Woolf and Albert Wendt; and traumatic occurrences from Nazism to the Syrian Revolution -- Provided by publisher.
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Contributions to a panel on "Revolving Modernisms, Recycling Revolutions" held at the 2015 Modernist Studies Association Conference in Boston. The conference's unifying theme was Revolution, a gesture toward the city as a birthplace of the American Revolution. The panel grew out of the recognition of contradictory meanings hidden in the etymology of the word revolution. Revolution originally meant a turning back, a rotation back to move forward, as in the cycle of the planets; later, revolution came to mean radical overthrow, rupture, change, particularly of political systems and the social order.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Title Page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Part 1 Beginnings; Introduction: The Past in the Present: Temporalities of the Contemporary; The Temporality of the Contemporary; Beginnings; Recycles: Aesthetics of Unsewing and Blacking Out; Revolutions: Arts of Resistance; Restages: Palimpsests of the Past; Rereads: Then, Now; Why Woolf?; Endings; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 1 Recycling Revolution: Re-mixing A Room of One's Own and Black Power in Kabe Wilson's Performance, Installation, and Narrative Art; Recycling, Re-mix, Revolution--Recycling A Room of One's OwnRe-Mixing Feminism, Queering Mary Carmichael; Revolution: Sampling Black Power; Re-ordering A Room of One's Own; All's Well That Ends Well: A Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Part 2 Recycles: Aesthetics of Unsewing and Blacking Out; Chapter 2 Stitch Works: Ellen Bell's Unpicking Aesthetics and Victorian Women's Creative Labor; Bell's Unpicking Aesthetics and Victorian Stitchers; Vibrant Assemblages; Unpicking Literary Text; Assemblages of Charlotte Bronte; Performing Stitches: Oubliette; Re-stitching: A Wrapping Up; Notes; Works Cited --

Chapter 3 Making It Niu: Blacking Out Albert Wendt's Pouliuli the Tusitala WayThe Tusitala Way; Tusi/Tala/Ala and I; Making Black Out Poetry Niu; Blacking Out Pouliuli; Niu Mythologies; Making It Niu; Acknowledgments; Notes; Works Cited; Part 3 Revolutions: Arts of Resistance; Chapter 4 Curating the Syrian Revolution Online; Revolution; Creative Resistance; Curating Resistance; Revolutionary Habitus; The Human Slaughterhouse; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 5 A Thousand Times No!: Spray Painting as Resistance and the Visual History of the Lam-Alif; A Thousand Times NO!

Revolution RelapseOff Streets of Cairo-On Streets of the World; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Part 4 Restages: Palimpsests of the Past; Chapter 6 The Folds of History in William Kentridge's Black Box Theatre: Sampling German Nazism and Colonialism; Black Box as a Critical Multidirectional Memory Discourse; Cross-Referencing the Colonial Archive; Performing the Colonial Archive; The Rhinoceros as the Black Box of Postcolonial Europe; The Folds of History; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 7 The Revolutions of Antjie Krog's Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse

The Lady and the Bard: On Texts, Times, and TransgressionsRevolutionary Transparencies: On Having and Being; Unexpected Forms: On Knowing, Waiting, and Learning to Listen; Coda on a Marimba: On Failure and Freedom; Notes; Works Cited; Part 5 Rereads: Then, Now; Chapter 8 Repair Work, Despair Work: W.G. Sebald's Contending Modernisms; That Most Abstract of Humanity's Homes; As a Reader of Virginia Woolf; Always Returning; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 9 On Rereading Woolf's Orlando as Transgender Text; Reading Transgender Histories; Histories of Reading Orlando

"An exploration of how 21st-century writers, artists, and performers forge a new concept of contemporaneity, this book shows how their work re-purposes fiction, poetry, and paintings of the past. Returning to revolution's original meaning of 'cycle', Contemporary Revolutions examines how African, European, and Middle Eastern literature and the arts addresses the violence and inequities of the present. Friedman brings together essays on a broad range of artists and topics: artists including Kabe Wilson, fabric artist Ellen Bell, graphic designer Sana Yazigi; writers such as W.G. Sebald and poet Selina Tusitala Marsh and their reworking of authors Virginia Woolf and Albert Wendt; and traumatic occurrences from Nazism to the Syrian Revolution -- Provided by publisher.

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