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1 online resource (326 pages) : online resource |
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Theatre and performance theory.
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| Contents |
Foreword: J. Lane -- Introduction: Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theatre; F.N. Becker, B. Werth & P. Herǹndez -- 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. Herǹndez -- 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 Guant̀namo: 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: Rasc̤n Banda's Hotel Jùrez and Sarah Misemer Peveroni's Berl̕n; 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Theater -- Political aspects.
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Theater and society.
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History.
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Theater.
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Performing arts.
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Civilization -- History.
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Political science.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Sociology.
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Human rights in art.
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Performing arts -- Political aspects
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Human rights.
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Performing arts -- Social aspects
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History
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Sociology
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Human Rights
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history (discipline)
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theater (discipline)
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sociology.
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performing arts (discipline)
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Social issues & processes.
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Theatre studies.
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Social & political philosophy.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Society.
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Theater
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Sociology
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Political science -- Philosophy
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Political science
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Performing arts -- Social aspects
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Performing arts -- Political aspects
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Performing arts
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Human rights
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History
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Civilization
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Human rights in art
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Theater and society
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Theater -- Political aspects
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Theater
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Aufführung
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Menschenrecht
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Drama
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Becker, Florian N., editor
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Hernández, Paola S., editor
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Werth, Brenda, editor
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| ISBN |
9781137027108 |
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113702710X |
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9781137027092 |
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1137027096 |
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9781349439508 |
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1349439509 |
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