Eyes of the Heart : : Selected Plays / / Catherine Filloux; ed. by Frank Stewart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Filloux, Catherine,
• HerausgeberIn: Stewart, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Mānoa ; 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824875800; 9783110719543; 9783110638936
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824875800
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Catherine Filloux; ed. by Frank Stewart.

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.