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This book examines a range of artworks through a postcolonial and feminist lens, in which revolt-both as a theme and as a medium-specific technique or/as critique -is made visible.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I
Feminism and Postcolonialism
1. Thinking Beyond the Weight of Tradition: Virginia Woolf's Postcolonial and Anti-Militarist Feminism
2. The Future Perfect of Bertha Mason: Configurations of Gender, Class, Ethnicity and "Race" in Charlotte Bront¿'s Jane Eyre
3. Bertha Mason in Labuwangi: Couperus and Colonial Gothic
Part II
Truth and Reconciliation
4. Truth and its Discontents: Reading Coetzee and Van Niekerk
5. A Dress for Phila Portia Ndwandwe: Moving from Krog to Mntambo
6. New Leaders and Old Texts: Recycling the Archive
Part III
Decolonising the Public Space
7. #RhodesMustFall and the Curation of European Imperial Legacies
8. The Folds of History in William Kentridge's Black Box Theatre
Epilogue
About the author
Rosemarie Buikema is Professor of Art, Culture and Diversity at Utrecht University. She chairs the UU Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) and is the scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG). In that capacity, she also co-ordinates the UU share in the Erasmus Mundus Master in Gender Studies (GEMMA) and directs the annual international Summer School in Gender Studies: NOISE. She co-chairs the UU IOS Hub Gender and Diversity: Building an Inclusive Society and she is the initiator and project leader of MOED, Museum of Equality and Difference.
She is currently the principal investigator for the Horizon2020 Cultures of Equality Innovative Training Network project where she is responsible for the work package: Textual and Artistic Cultures of Gender Equality. She has extensive experience in supervising and directing large cultural and academic events and projects among others an EU FP6 Early Stage Research training programme which delivered 39 PHD’s EU-wide.
Summary
This book examines a range of artworks through a postcolonial and feminist lens, in which revolt-both as a theme and as a medium-specific technique or/as critique -is made visible.
