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Becker / Werth / Hernández

Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater

Global Perspectives

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-349-43950-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Erscheinungstermin: 28.12.2012
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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.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781349439508
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-349-43950-8
  • Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
  • Erscheinungstermin: 28.12.2012
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2013
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 4367 g
  • Seiten: 284
  • Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 17 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Becker, F.

Werth, B.

Hernández, P.

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