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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.

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Foreword: J.Lane Introduction: Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theatre; F.N.Becker , B.Werth & P.Hernández PART I: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL SOCIETY Dead Body Politics: Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani at Peru´s Truth Commission; A.Lambright Where ´God is Like a Longing´: Theatre and Social Vulnerability in Mozambique; L.Madureira The ESMA: From Torture Chambers into New Sites of Memory; P.Hernández Surpassing Metaphors of Violence in Postdictatorial Southern Cone Theatre; B.Werth PART II: THE ´WAR ON TERROR´ AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC ORDER Place and Misplaced Rights in Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom; L.Mantoan Challenging the ´fetish of the verbatim´: New Aesthetics and Familiar Abuses in Christine Evans´s Slow Falling Bird; C.Wilson Stages of Transit: Rascón Banda´s Hotel Juárez and Sarah Misemer Peveroni´s Berlín; S.Misemer Migrant Melodrama, Human Rights, and Elvira Arellano; A.Puga PART III: TRANSNATIONAL PUBLICS ´Get up, Stand up, Stand up for your Rights´: Transnational Belonging and Rights of Citizenship in Dominican Theatre; C.Stevens Theatres of Vigil and Vigilance: A Playwright´s Notes on Theatre and Human Rights in the Philippines; J.Barrios ´The Spectacle of Our Suffering´: Staging the International Human Rights Imaginary in Tony Kushner´s Homebody/Kabul; E.Anker Broadway Without Borders: Eve Ensler, Lynn Nottage, and the Campaign to End Violence against Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo; K.Bystrom

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"Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater is a welcome addition to a growing field of scholarship on contemporary theater and human rights." - College Literature

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ELIZABETH S. ANKER Cornell University, USA JOI BARRIOS University of California Berkeley, USA KERRY BYSTROM Bard College, USA ANNE LAMBRIGHT Trinity College, USA JILL LANE New York University, USA LUÖS MADUREIRA Independent Scholar LINDSEY MANTOAN Stanford University, USA SARAH M. MISEMER Texas A&M University, USA ANA ELENA PUGA The Ohio State University, USA CAMILLA STEVENS Rutgers University, USA

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