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.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsBeginnings Introduction: “The Past in the Present: Temporalities of the Contemporary”Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAChapter 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 OutChapter 2: “Stitch Works: Ellen Bell’s Unpicking Aesthetics and Victorian Women’s Creative Labor”Susan David Bernstein, Boston University, USAChapter 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 ResistanceChapter 4: “Curating the Syrian Revolution Online”miriam cooke, Duke University, USAChapter 5: “A Thousand Times No!: Spray Painting as Resistance and the Visual History of the Lam-Alif”Bahia Shehab, American University of Cairo, EgyptRestages: Palimpsests of the PastChapter 6: “The Folds of History in William Kentridge’s Black Box Theatre: Sampling German Nazism and Colonialism”Rosemarie Buikema, Utrecht University, The NetherlandsChapter 7: “The Revolutions of Antjie Krog’s Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse.”Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania, USA Rereads: Then, NowChapter 8: “Repair Work, Despair Work: W. G. Sebald’s Contending Modernisms”Elizabeth Abel, University of California, Berkeley, USAChapter 9: “On Rereading Woolf’s Orlando as Transgender Text”Margaret Homans, Yale University, USA Index