Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater
Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 27. December 2012
XIII, 284 pages
978-1-137-02710-8 (ISBN)
Description
There is extraordinary diversity, depth, and complexity in the encounter between theatre, performance, and human rights. Through an examination of a rich repertoire of plays and performance practices from and about countries across six continents, the contributors open the way toward understanding the character and significance of this encounter.
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"Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater is a welcome addition to a growing field of scholarship on contemporary theater and human rights." - College Literature
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F. Becker | P. Hernández | B. Werth
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Global Perspectives
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F. Becker | P. Hernández | B. Werth
Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater
Global Perspectives
Book
12/2012
Palgrave MacMillan
€53.49
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
ELIZABETH S. ANKER Cornell University, USA
JOI BARRIOS University of California Berkeley, USA
KERRY BYSTROM Bard College, USA
ANNE LAMBRIGHT Trinity College, USA
JILL LANE New York University, USA
LUÍS MADUREIRA Independent Scholar
LINDSEY MANTOAN Stanford University, USA
SARAH M. MISEMER Texas A&M University, USA
ANA ELENA PUGA The Ohio State University, USA
CAMILLA STEVENS Rutgers University, USA
Content
Foreword: J.Lane Introduction: Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theatre; F.N.Becker , B.Werth & P.Hernández PART I: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL SOCIETY Dead Body Politics: Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani at Peru's Truth Commission; A.Lambright Where 'God is Like a Longing': Theatre and Social Vulnerability in Mozambique; L.Madureira The ESMA: From Torture Chambers into New Sites of Memory; P.Hernández Surpassing Metaphors of Violence in Postdictatorial Southern Cone Theatre; B.Werth PART II: THE 'WAR ON TERROR' AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC ORDER Place and Misplaced Rights in Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom; L.Mantoan Challenging the 'fetish of the verbatim': New Aesthetics and Familiar Abuses in Christine Evans's Slow Falling Bird; C.Wilson Stages of Transit: Rascón Banda's Hotel Juárez and Sarah Misemer Peveroni's Berlín; S.Misemer Migrant Melodrama, Human Rights, and Elvira Arellano; A.Puga PART III: TRANSNATIONAL PUBLICS 'Get up, Stand up, Stand up for your Rights': Transnational Belonging and Rights of Citizenship in Dominican Theatre; C.Stevens Theatres of Vigil and Vigilance: A Playwright's Notes on Theatre and Human Rights in the Philippines; J.Barrios 'The Spectacle of Our Suffering': Staging the International Human Rights Imaginary in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul; E.Anker Broadway Without Borders: Eve Ensler, Lynn Nottage, and the Campaign to End Violence against Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo; K.Bystrom
