Becker, Florian N.
Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First-Century Theater
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
Florian N. Becker, Paola S. Hernández, Brenda Werth
Section I. Transitional Justice and Civil Society
2. Dead Body Politics: Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani at Peru’s Truth Commission
Anne Lambright
3. Where “God Is Like a Longing”: Theater and Social Vulnerability in Mozambique
Luís Madureira
4. The ESMA: From Torture Chambers into New Sites of Memory
Paola S. Hernández
5. Surpassing Metaphors of Violence in Postdictatorial Southern Cone Theater
Brenda Werth
Section II. The “War on Terror” and the Global Economic Order
6. Place and Misplaced Rights in
Lindsey Mantoan
7. Challenging the “Fetish of the Verbatim”: New Aesthetics and Familiar Abuses in Christine Evans’s
Christina Wilson
8. Stages of Transit: Rascón Banda’s
Sarah M. Misemer
9. Migrant Melodrama, Human Rights, and Elvira Arellano
Ana Elena Puga
Section III. Transnational Publics
10. “Get up, Stand up, Stand up for your Rights”: Transnational Belonging and Rights of Citizenship in Dominican Theater
Camilla Stevens
11. Theaters of Vigil and Vigilance: A Playwright’s Notes on Theater and Human Rights in the Philippines
Joi Barrios
12. “The Spectacle of Our Suffering”: Staging the International Human Rights Imaginary in Tony Kushner’s
Elizabeth S. Anker
13. Broadway without Borders: Eve Ensler, Lynn Nottage, and the Campaign to End Violence against Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Kerry Bystrom
Nyckelord: History, Cultural History, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Performing Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies, Sociological Theory
- Utgivare
- Becker, Florian N.
- Hernández, Paola S.
- Werth, Brenda
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2013
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 297 sidor
- Kategori
- Historia
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137027108
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-1-349-43950-8