Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First-Century Theater: Global Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Dead Body Politics: Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani at Peru’s Truth Commission....Pages 27-44
Where “God Is Like a Longing”: Theater and Social Vulnerability in Mozambique....Pages 45-66
The ESMA: From Torture Chambers into New Sites of Memory....Pages 67-82
Surpassing Metaphors of Violence in Postdictatorial Southern Cone Theater....Pages 83-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Place and Misplaced Rights in Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom ....Pages 101-120
Challenging the “Fetish of the Verbatim”: New Aesthetics and Familiar Abuses in Christine Evans’s Slow Falling Bird ....Pages 121-136
Stages of Transit: Rascón Banda’s Hotel Juárez and Peveroni’s Berlín ....Pages 137-153
Migrant Melodrama, Human Rights, and Elvira Arellano....Pages 155-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
“Get up, Stand up, Stand up for your Rights”: Transnational Belonging and Rights of Citizenship in Dominican Theater....Pages 179-193
Theaters of Vigil and Vigilance: A Playwright’s Notes on Theater and Human Rights in the Philippines....Pages 195-207
“The Spectacle of Our Suffering”: Staging the International Human Rights Imaginary in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul ....Pages 209-225
Broadway without Borders: Eve Ensler, Lynn Nottage, and the Campaign to End Violence against Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo....Pages 227-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-284