| Contemporary Revolutions: Turning Back to the Future in 21st-Century Literature and Art Contributor(s): Friedman, Susan Stanford (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1350045292 ISBN-13: 9781350045293 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Art | Conceptual |
| Dewey: 808 |
| LCCN: 2018008899 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.19 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Friedman, Susan Stanford: - Susan Stanford Friedman is a Hilldale Professor of the Humanities and the Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the Institute for Research in the Humanities. She has published extensively in modernist studies, feminist studies, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, contemporary world literature, and migration/diaspora studies. She is the author of Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time, Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter, and Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, and H.D.'s Fiction. She served as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (1990) and the Modernist Studies Association (2012). |