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Imagining human rights in twenty-first-century theater: Global perspectives / Edited by Florian N. Becker, Paola S. Hernandez, and Brenda Werth

Contributor(s): Becker, Florian N.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: xii, 284 p.ISBN: 9781137027092.Subject(s): Human rights -- 21st CenturyDDC classification: 323
Contents:
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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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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