This is the first book in English to focus on the Theater of Narration, a genre characterized by narrators who write and perform works that revisit historical events of national importance from local perspectives.
Edited by Megan E. Geigner, Stuart J. Hecht and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
Contributions by Rosemarie K. Bank, Aymar Jean Christian, Shannon Epplett, Cat Gleason, Aaron Krall, LaRonika Marie Thomas, Laley Lippard, Laura A. Lodewyck, Meida McNeal, Travis Stern and Irina Zadov
This book brings together leading historians on the history of theater and performance in Chicago. The essays theorize a regional theater aesthetic that is inherently makeshift and marginal, reflecting the city’s segregation and exposing the transgressive possibilities of performance.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle the state-subsidized stage. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways artists have reimagined the theater in response to these crises.
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives examines twenty-first-century documentary theater in Latin America, demonstrating how material objects and archives—photographs, videos, and documents such as witness reports, legal briefs, and letters—come to life onstage.
Edited by Jeff Ostler, Joshua L. Reid and Susan Sleeper-Smith
Contributions by Kealani Cook, Nick Estes, Christine M. DeLucia, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, Amber Hickey, Rauna Kuokkanen, Forrest Hylton, Amy Lonetree, Lucinda Rasmussen, Liz Przybylski, Beth H. Piatote, Ashley Riley Sousa, Sylvia Soto, Scott Manning Stevens and Brenda J. Child
This interdisciplinary collection of essays recognizes a long history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples while emphasizing the agency of Native individuals and communities in genocide’s aftermath. Contributors provide historical and contemporary examples of activism, resistance, identity formation, historical memory, resilience, survival, and healing.
Edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Jeff Ostler and Joshua L. Reid
Contributions by Kealani Cook, Nick Estes, Christine M. DeLucia, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, Amber Hickey, Rauna Kuokkanen, Forrest Hylton, Amy Lonetree, Lucinda Rasmussen, Liz Przybylski, Beth H. Piatote, Ashley Riley Sousa, Sylvia Soto, Scott Manning Stevens and Brenda J. Child
In contrast to past studies that focus narrowly on war and massacre, treat Native peoples as victims, and consign violence safely to the past, this interdisciplinary collection of essays opens up...
Contributions by Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, Gaspar de Carvajal, Jean de Léry, José de Acosta, Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca, Father Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, André Joao Antonil, Father Jacinto Morán de Butrón, Georges Louis Le Clerc, José Martín Félix de Árrate y Acosta, Francisco Javier de Clavijero, Juan Ignacio Molina, Simón Bolívar, Andrés Bello, Simón Rodríguez, Johann Rudolf Rengger, José María Heredia y Heredia, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Domingo F. Sarmiento, José María Samper, José Martí, Baldomero Lillo, Horacio Quiroga, José Eustasio Rivera, César Uribe Piedrahita, Juan Marín, Graciliano Ramos, Ramón Amaya Amador, Julián del Casal, Rafael Barrett, Manuel González Prada, Pierre Quiroule, Oswald de Andrade, Rubén Darío, Alfonsina Storni, María Luis Bombal, Pablo Neruda, Juan Rulfo, Lydia Cabrera, José María Arguedas, Esteban Montejo, Clarice Lispector, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Rigoberta Menchú, Chico Mendes, Octavio Paz, Juan Carlos Galeano, Fernando Contreras Castro, Gioconda Belli, Subcommandant Marcos, Eduardo del Llano, Esthela Calderón, Homero Aridjis, José Emilio Pacheco, Mayra Montero, Jaime Huenún, Samanta Schweblin, Berta Cáceres, Pope Francis and Eduardo Chirinos
Translated by J.M. Cohen, Nina M. Scott, Sandra Ferdman, Bertram T. Lee, Janet Whatley, Frances M. López-Morillas, Delia Goetz, Sylvanus G. Morley, Grady C. Wray, Harold V. Livermore, Paul J. Kaveney, Timothy Coates, Frederick H. Fornoff, Elizabeth Kieffer, G.J. Racz, Kathleen Ross, Esther Allen, Steven Dolph, J. David Danielson, John Charles Chasteen, Patricia González, Ralph Edward Dimmick, Arthur Dixon, Leslie Bary, Andrew Hurley, Greg Simon, Steven F. White, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Lucia Cunningham, Richard Cunningham, Jack Schmitt, Ilan Stavans, Harold Augenbraum, Frances Horning Barraclough, W. Nick Hill, Idra Novey, Charles A. Perrone, Ann Wright, Chris Whitehouse, Anthony Stanton, James Kimbrell, Rebecca Morgan, Rose Schreiber-Stainthorp, George McWhirter, Margaret Sayers Pedan, Edith Grossman, John Bierhorst and Megan McDowell
The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is an anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world, spanning the early colonial period to the present.
This book argues that Stalin chose Writers’ Union leaders, such as Maxim Gorky and Alexandr Fadeyev, whose psychologies he could exploit. He ensured their loyalty with material benefits but also with a philosophical argument calculated to assuage their moral qualms about supporting the regime.
Contributions by Lorena Avila, Francois Dallaire, Yehudit Dori-Deston, Alberto Giordano, Paul B. Jaskot, Anne Kelly Knowles, Holli Levistsky, Meghan Lundrigan, Nancy Nicholls, Dalia Ofer, Sharon B. Oster, Hannah Pollin-Galay, Andrea Rudorff, Susanna Schrafstetter and Yael Siman
This book reevaluates concepts such as Primo Levi’s “gray zone” and uses digital methodologies to examine mobility and space and their relationship to hiding, resistance, and emigration, focusing on the histories of individuals and social groups.
