Eyes of the Heart: Selected Plays

A collection of six plays by award-winning playwright Catherine Filloux: Eyes of the Heart; Kidnap Road; Lemkin’s House; Mary and Myra; Selma ’65; and Silence of God. The plays have both national and international settings. Subjects include key figures in the history of human and civil rights; genoc...

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1. Verfasser: Filloux, Catherine (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Stewart, Frank (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Mānoa 29
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Zusammenfassung:A collection of six plays by award-winning playwright Catherine Filloux: Eyes of the Heart; Kidnap Road; Lemkin’s House; Mary and Myra; Selma ’65; and Silence of God. The plays have both national and international settings. Subjects include key figures in the history of human and civil rights; genocide; crimes against women; international human rights law; U.S. Civil Rights Movement; and Women’s Suffrage.SEVERAL OF THE REAL-LIFE FIGURES IN FILLOUX'S PLAYS:*Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian politician and activist, kidnapped by FARC revolutionary forces in 2002*Myra Bradwell, first U.S. woman lawyer, instrumental in getting Mary Todd Lincoln released from an insane asylum in 1875*Raphael Lemkin, originator of the term "genocide," activist lawyer, and advisor on war crimes*Mary Todd Lincoln, widow of President Abraham Lincoln*Viola Liuzzo, Civil Rights activist murdered by the KKK in 1965*Pol Pot, head of the Khmer Rouge regime, responsible for the deaths of nearly two million Cambodians*William Proxmire, U.S. senator, advocate in Congress for the adoption of the International Convention for the Punishment of Genocide
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ISBN:9780824875800

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