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Eyes of the Heart: Selected Plays

By (author) Catherine Filloux

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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. National and international settings. Subjects include key figures in the history of human and civil rights; genocide; crimes against women during armed conflicts; international human rights law; U.S. Civil Rights Movement; and Woman's Suffrage. Several real-life figures appear in Filloux's plays: Ingrid Betancourt, a woman politician in Colombia who campaigned for presidency and was kidnapped by FARC revolutionary forces in 2002; Myra Bradwell, first US woman lawyer; political activist, instrumental in getting Mary Todd Lincoln released from an insane asylum and her inheritance restored; Raphael Lemkin, originator of the term genocide, activist lawyer against international war crimes; nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize; Mary Todd Lincoln, widow of President Abraham Lincoln; Viola Liuzzo, civil rights activist murdered by the KKK; only white woman killed during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement; Pol Pot, head of the Khmer Rouge, responsible in the 1970s for the deaths of nearly two million Cambodians; William Proxmire, senator who advocated for the U.S. adoption of the International Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

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Normally shipped | Usually dispatched in 3 to 4 weeks as supplier is out of stock
Publisher | University of Hawai'i Press
Published date | 30 Mar 2018
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 220
Dimensions | 254 x 178 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-8248-7536-7
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BISAC | drama / general


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