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