Eyes of the Heart: Selected Plays (Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, 29)

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. Read more