Imagining human rights in twenty-first-century theater : global perspectives

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.

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Foreword: Postnational Theater Studies	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First-Century Theater	p. 1
Section I Transitional Justice and Civil Society
1 Dead Body Politics: Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani at Peru's Truth Commission	p. 27
2 Where "God Is Like a Longing": Theater and Social Vulnerability in Mozambique	p. 45
3 The ESMA: From Torture Chambers into New Sites of Memory	p. 67
4 Surpassing Metaphors of Violence in Postdictatorial Southern Cone Theater	p. 83
Section II The "War on Terror" and the Global Economic Order
5 Place and Misplaced Rights in Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom	p. 101
6 Challenging the "Fetish of the Verbatim": New Aesthetics and Familiar Abuses in Christine Evans's Slow Falling Bird	p. 121
7 Stages of Transit: Rascón Banda's Hotel Juárez and Peveroni's Berlín	p. 137
8 Migrant Melodrama, Human Rights, and Elvira Arellano	p. 155
Section III Transnational Publics
9 "Get up, Stand up, Stand up for your Rights": Transnational Belonging and Rights of Citizenship in Dominican Theater	p. 179
10 Theaters of Vigil and Vigilance: A Playwright's Notes on Theater and Human Rights in the Philippines	p. 195
11 "The Spectacle of Our Suffering": Staging the International Human Rights Imaginary in Tony Kushner's	p. 209
12 Broadway without Borders: Eve Ensler, Lynn Nottage, and the Campaign to End Violence against Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo	p. 227
Bibliography	p. 249
Notes on Contributors	p. 271
Index	p. 275

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