Theatre and human rights after 1945
Subtitle: things unspeakable
By: Emilie Morin and Mary Luckhurst, University of York, UK, [editors]
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781137362292
Subjects: Social aspects; Theater and society; Political aspects; Theater; Human rights in literature
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: theatre and the rise of human rights / Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin; title: Colonial legacies and the unspeakable. Unspeakable tragedies: censorship and the new political theatre of the Algerian War of independence / Emilie Morin; title: Beyond articulation: Brian Friel, civil rights, and the Northern Irish conflict /  Michael Mcateer; title: Unspeakability and ethnicity. Lapsing into democracy: magnet theatre and the drama of unspeakability in the new South Africa /  Mark Fleishman; title: The great Australian silence: aboriginal theatre and human rights /  Maryrose Casey; title: Returning histories, listening, and trauma. Disappearing history: listening and trauma in Ariel Dorfman's Death and the maiden /  Cathy Caruth; title: Hungry ghosts and inalienable remains: performing rights of repatriation /  Emma Cox; title: Representing genocide at home: Ishi, again / Catherine M. Cole; title: Theatres of advocacy and western liberalism. The politics of telling and workers' rights: the case of Mike Daisey /  Carol Martin; title: Gender-based violence and human rights: participatory theatre in post-genocide Rwanda /  Ananda Breed; title: Jalila Baccar and Tunisian theatre: we will not be silent /  Marvin Carlson; title: Militancy and contemporary invisibilities.  Defixio: disability and the speakable legacy of John Belluso /  Michael M. Chemers; title: Theatre and elder abuse /  Mary Luckhurst.