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Eyes of the Heart : Selected Plays / Catherine Filloux; edition by Frank Stewart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Filloux, Catherine, author.
- Series:
- Mānoa ; 29.
- Mānoa ; 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American drama--21st century.
- American drama.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 pages).
- Contained In:
- De Gruyter University Press Library.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Editor's Note
- Silence of God
- Selma '65
- Mary and Myra
- Kidnap Road
- Lemkin's House
- Eyes of the Heart
- A Conversation with Catherine Filloux
- About the Artist
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
- ISBN:
- 9780824875800
- OCLC:
- 1007823214
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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