Theatre and Human Rights after 1945 [electronic resource] : Things Unspeakable /
Luckhurst, Mary.editor.
Morin, Emilie.editor.
This volume investigates the rise of human rights discourses manifested in the global spectrum of theatre and performance since 1945. Essays address topics such as disability, discrimination indigenous rights, torture, gender violence, genocide and elder abuse.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: theatre and the rise of human rights / Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin -- Colonial legacies and the unspeakable. Unspeakable tragedies: censorship and the new political theatre of the Algerian War of independence / Emilie Morin -- Beyond articulation: Brian Friel, civil rights, and the Northern Irish conflict / Michael Mcateer -- Unspeakability and ethnicity. Lapsing into democracy: magnet theatre and the drama of unspeakability in the new South Africa / Mark Fleishman -- The great Australian silence: aboriginal theatre and human rights / Maryrose Casey -- Returning histories, listening, and trauma. Disappearing history: listening and trauma in Ariel Dorfman's Death and the maiden / Cathy Caruth -- Hungry ghosts and inalienable remains: performing rights of repatriation / Emma Cox -- Representing genocide at home: Ishi, again / Catherine M. Cole -- Theatres of advocacy and western liberalism. The politics of telling and workers' rights: the case of Mike Daisey / Carol Martin -- Gender-based violence and human rights: participatory theatre in post-genocide Rwanda / Ananda Breed -- Jalila Baccar and Tunisian theatre: we will not be silent / Marvin Carlson -- Militancy and contemporary invisibilities. Defixio: disability and the speakable legacy of John Belluso / Michael M. Chemers -- Theatre and elder abuse / Mary Luckhurst.
This volume investigates the rise of human rights discourses manifested in the global spectrum of theatre and performance since 1945. Essays address topics such as disability, discrimination indigenous rights, torture, gender violence, genocide and elder abuse.
Performing arts.
Theater—History.
Theater.
Arts.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Arts.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.
Human Rights.