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Theatre and human rights after 1945 : things unspeakable

Title
Theatre and human rights after 1945 : things unspeakable / edited by Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin, University of Melbourne, and University of York, UK.
Publication
Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Morin, Emilie, 1978-
  • Luckhurst, Mary
Description
xiii, 254 pages; 23 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
MWET 15-6487
ISBN
  • 9781137362292
  • 1137362294
LCCN
2015014198
OCLC
908146117
Title
Theatre and human rights after 1945 : things unspeakable / edited by Mary Luckhurst and Emilie Morin, University of Melbourne, and University of York, UK.
Publisher
Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243) and index.
Added Author
Morin, Emilie, 1978- editor.
Luckhurst, Mary, editor.
Research Call Number
MWET 15-6487
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