Public Secrets from Peru
dc.contributor.author | Isbell, Billie Jean | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2005-09-14T16:30:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2005-09-14T16:30:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-09-14T16:30:30Z | |
dc.description | A play about political violence in Peru. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | In deciding to create a drama about violence in Peru, I have moved away from the usual academic discourse into the arena of performance. I have made this move for a number of reasons: foremost is my desire that English-speaking audiences (and readers) hear the words of those whose stories I and my colleagues have recorded because I know that tales of terror engender denial on the part of the listener. Perhaps dramatic form can provide a tolerable means of communication as a product of imagination, a fantasy, and to borrow a phrase that Taussig used in 1993 at a lecture at Cornell. It captures the 'reality of the really made up.' My hope is that by the end of this play, my interlocutor will have a new sense of the complex motivations of victimizers and victims caught in an increasing spiral of violence. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 2690376 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/2196 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.subject | Peru | en_US |
dc.subject | Andean Culture | en_US |
dc.subject | Political Violence | en_US |
dc.subject | Protest Art | en_US |
dc.subject | Political Drama | en_US |
dc.subject | Disappeared Persons | en_US |
dc.subject | Terrorism | en_US |
dc.title | Public Secrets from Peru | en_US |
dc.type | other | en_US |
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