Rosemarie Buikema is professor of art, culture and diversity at Utrecht University. She chairs the UU Graduate Gender Programme and is the scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies

• Preface IntroductionPart IFeminism and Postcolonialism1. Thinking Beyond the Weight of Tradition: Virginia Woolf’s Postcolonial and Anti-Militarist Feminism2. The Future Perfect of Bertha Mason: Configurations of Gender, Class, Ethnicity and “Race” in Charlotte Bront?’s Jane Eyre3. Bertha Mason in Labuwangi: Couperus and Colonial GothicPart IITruth and Reconciliation4. Truth and its Discontents: Reading Coetzee and Van Niekerk5. A Dress for Phila Portia Ndwandwe: Moving from Krog to Mntambo6. New Leaders and Old Texts: Recycling the ArchivePart IIIDecolonising the Public Space7. #RhodesMustFall and the Curation of European Imperial Legacies8. The Folds of History in William Kentridge’s Black Box TheatreEpilogue

With characteristic brilliance, Rosemarie Buikema raises one of the most fundamental questions of our time: What to do with “old stuff”? That is, through what methods, means, and measures can humanity transition away from the violence of coloniality to just and equitable relations. A book about a political "not yet here" that has nevertheless already materialized in practices of imagination, Revolts in Cultural Critique offers a deeply compelling treatment of the capacity of form to work through complex and haunting pasts.

Rosemarie Buikema is professor of art, culture and diversity at Utrecht University. She chairs the UU Graduate Gender Programme and is the scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies

• Preface IntroductionPart IFeminism and Postcolonialism1. Thinking Beyond the Weight of Tradition: Virginia Woolf’s Postcolonial and Anti-Militarist Feminism2. The Future Perfect of Bertha Mason: Configurations of Gender, Class, Ethnicity and “Race” in Charlotte Bront?’s Jane Eyre3. Bertha Mason in Labuwangi: Couperus and Colonial GothicPart IITruth and Reconciliation4. Truth and its Discontents: Reading Coetzee and Van Niekerk5. A Dress for Phila Portia Ndwandwe: Moving from Krog to Mntambo6. New Leaders and Old Texts: Recycling the ArchivePart IIIDecolonising the Public Space7. #RhodesMustFall and the Curation of European Imperial Legacies8. The Folds of History in William Kentridge’s Black Box TheatreEpilogue

With characteristic brilliance, Rosemarie Buikema raises one of the most fundamental questions of our time: What to do with “old stuff”? That is, through what methods, means, and measures can humanity transition away from the violence of coloniality to just and equitable relations. A book about a political "not yet here" that has nevertheless already materialized in practices of imagination, Revolts in Cultural Critique offers a deeply compelling treatment of the capacity of form to work through complex and haunting pasts.

Rosemarie Buikema is professor of art, culture and diversity at Utrecht University. She chairs the UU Graduate Gender Programme and is the scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies

• Preface IntroductionPart IFeminism and Postcolonialism1. Thinking Beyond the Weight of Tradition: Virginia Woolf’s Postcolonial and Anti-Militarist Feminism2. The Future Perfect of Bertha Mason: Configurations of Gender, Class, Ethnicity and “Race” in Charlotte Bront?’s Jane Eyre3. Bertha Mason in Labuwangi: Couperus and Colonial GothicPart IITruth and Reconciliation4. Truth and its Discontents: Reading Coetzee and Van Niekerk5. A Dress for Phila Portia Ndwandwe: Moving from Krog to Mntambo6. New Leaders and Old Texts: Recycling the ArchivePart IIIDecolonising the Public Space7. #RhodesMustFall and the Curation of European Imperial Legacies8. The Folds of History in William Kentridge’s Black Box TheatreEpilogue

With characteristic brilliance, Rosemarie Buikema raises one of the most fundamental questions of our time: What to do with “old stuff”? That is, through what methods, means, and measures can humanity transition away from the violence of coloniality to just and equitable relations. A book about a political "not yet here" that has nevertheless already materialized in practices of imagination, Revolts in Cultural Critique offers a deeply compelling treatment of the capacity of form to work through complex and haunting pasts.