Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater de F. Becker

Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater: Global Perspectives

F. Becker

P. Hernández

B. Werth

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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Paperback (1)

297^.01 lei 22-36 zile

Palgrave Macmillan US – 28 dec 2012

297^.01 lei 22-36 zile

Hardback (1)

305^.84 lei 22-36 zile

Palgrave Macmillan US – 28 dec 2012

305^.84 lei 22-36 zile

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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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ELIZABETH S. ANKER Cornell University, USAJOI BARRIOS University of California Berkeley, USAKERRY BYSTROM Bard College, USAANNE LAMBRIGHT Trinity College, USAJILL LANE New York University, USALUÍS MADUREIRA Independent ScholarLINDSEY MANTOAN Stanford University, USASARAH M. MISEMER Texas A&M University, USAANA ELENA PUGA The Ohio State University, USACAMILLA STEVENS Rutgers University, USA