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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350045292 ISBN 13: 9781350045293

Publisher: Continuum, 2018

Synopsis

Returning to revolution's original meaning of `cycle', Contemporary Revolutions explores 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.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1350045292
• ISBN 13: 9781350045293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: Friedman Susan Stanford