Imagining human rights in twenty-first-century theater: Global perspectives /
Edited by Florian N. Becker, Paola S. Hernandez, and Brenda Werth
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- xii, 284 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-269) and index.
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
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Human rights--21st Century
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-269) and index.
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
9781137027092
Human rights--21st Century
323