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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mary Luckhurst , Emilie MorinPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2015 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 4.434kg ISBN: 9781137362292ISBN 10: 1137362294 Pages: 254 Publication Date: 17 September 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Theatre and the Rise of Human Rights; Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin Part I: COLONIAL LEGACIES AND THE UNSPEAKABLE 2. Unspeakable Tragedies: Censorship and the New Political Theatre of the Algerian War of Independence; Emilie Morin 3. Beyond Articulation: Brian Friel, Civil Rights, and the Northern Irish Conflict; Michael McAteer Part II: UNSPEAKABILITY AND ETHNICITY 4. 'Lapsing into Democracy': Magnet Theatre and the Drama of Unspeakability in the New South Africa; Mark Fleishman 5. The Great Australian Silence: Aboriginal Theatre and Human Rights; Maryrose Casey Part III: RETURNING HISTORIES, LISTENING, AND TRAUMA 6. Disappearing History: Listening and Trauma in Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden; Cathy Caruth 7. Hungry Ghosts and Inalienable Remains: Performing Rights of Repatriation; Emma Cox 8. Representing Genocide at Home: Ishi, Again; Catherine M. Cole Part IV: THEATRES OF ADVOCACY AND WESTERN LIBERALISM 9. The Politics of Telling and Workers' Rights: The Case of Mike Daisey; Carol Martin 10. Gender-based Violence and Human Rights: Participatory Theatre in Post-Genocide Rwanda; Ananda Breed 11. Jalila Baccar and Tunisian Theatre: 'We Will Not Be Silent'; Marvin Carlson Part V: MILITANCY AND CONTEMPORARY INVISIBILITIES 12. Defixio: Disability and the Speakable Legacy of John Belluso; Michael M. Chemers 13. Theatre and Elder Abuse; Mary Luckhurst Select Bibliography IndexReviewsThis book defines vitally important new territory in thinking about the intersection of theatre, social engagement, and human rights. Nuanced readings of 20th and 21st-century performance practices investigate the unique role of theatre in relation to issues such as post-conflict violence, torture, elder abuse, political censorship, corporate labour practices, and disability. Cathy Caruth analyses the politics of listening and Catherine Cole writes magisterially on institutional ethics and the performance of genocide. This is a brilliant expose of the way performance can sometimes transcend and sometimes spectacularly fail in the wake of the famously unspeakable horrors of Auschwitz. - Yoni Prior, Deakin University, Australia This volume examines the critical and performative valency of 'unspeakability', by sensitively investigating its meanings within various historical and political contexts. Engaging with protest theatres in northern Africa, disability, indigenous rights, elder abuse, torture, sexual violence, and the ethical protocols of repatriating human remains, it offers an impressively diverse set of agendas on human rights. Theatre and Human Rights interrogates the 'unspeakable' in ways that will resonate with everyone and for a long time to come. - Joanne Tompkins, University of Queensland, Australia Editors ... have collected an impressive range of international perspectives on human rights and theatre. ... What the volume as a whole achieves is an insistence on theatre's roles in wider cultural (often global) contexts that are about testimony, the recognition of past injustices, mediation, advocacy, and potential catharsis. Contributors offer engaging accounts of examples from a range of places (and eras) in which performance speaks of and through human rights abuses at the level of institutions, states, and international collusion. (Aylwyn Walsh, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 33 (1), February, 2017) I describe this book as vital to playwrights, artistic directors and serious artistic thinkers alike. ... I learned much from this book and it will assist my own work as a playwright. ... I suggest that whether you are a theatre practitioner or an audience member, your stage experience will be improved by reading these essays. As I said at the outset, Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin have compiled and edited a vital series of essays. (Hubert O'Hearn, San Diego Book Review, October, 2015) Editors ... have collected an impressive range of international perspectives on human rights and theatre. ... What the volume as a whole achieves is an insistence on theatre's roles in wider cultural (often global) contexts that are about testimony, the recognition of past injustices, mediation, advocacy, and potential catharsis. Contributors offer engaging accounts of examples from a range of places (and eras) in which performance speaks of and through human rights abuses at the level of institutions, states, and international collusion. (Aylwyn Walsh, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 33 (1), February, 2017) I describe this book as vital to playwrights, artistic directors and serious artistic thinkers alike. ... I learned much from this book and it will assist my own work as a playwright. ... I suggest that whether you are a theatre practitioner or an audience member, your stage experience will be improved by reading these essays. As I said at the outset, Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin have compiled and edited a vital series of essays. (Hubert O'Hearn, San Diego Book Review, October, 2015) Author InformationAnanda Breed, University of East London, UK Marvin Carlson, City University of New York, USA Cathy Caruth, Cornell University, USA Maryrose Casey, Monash University, Australia Michael M. Chemers, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Catherine M. Cole, University of California, Berkeley, USA Emma Cox, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Mark Fleishman, University of Cape Town, South Africa Mary Luckhurst, University of Melbourne, Australia Michael McAteer, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary Carol Martin, New York University, USA Emilie Morin, University of York, UK Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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