Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule

Name: Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule
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ISBN: 9780299209049

ISBN-10: 0299209040

ISBN-13: 9780299209049

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ksenija Bilbija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia E. Milton, Leigh A. Payne

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People who have lived through authoritarian rule have stories to tell, truths that have been silenced. But how do individuals begin to speak about a political past that was too horrible for words? How is truth best voiced in a society moving out of authoritarianism? This generously illustrated volume examines the creation of stories, accounts, images, songs, street theater, paintings, and ideas that pay witness to Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia. This theme is explored with contributions by scholars, activists, and artists. By examining the past, they hope to teach us to avoid repeating these atrocities.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 9/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 148
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.946



Foreword


Introduction


Now for a story


Writing pasts : the work of Seno Gumira Ajidarma


Youth struggle


Banging out the truth : the story of empty pots and pans


Artworlds


Fragments of a past : the work of Zoran Mojsilov


Reckoning with state violence


A park for memories


Through the grapevine


Recollecting the dead


Alive, until truth arrived


Rumors of war


The power of song


Exhuming popular memory


Traces


Politics in the raw


Moving images


Coming back


Alternate visions


Batas militar


Humor that makes trouble


Teasing out the truth : the work of Zapiro


Laughing at power : the work of Corax (Predrag Koraksic)


Seriously funny


Performing truth


Unearthed truths


Outing perpetrators


After the fall


Memoryscapes


Gen XX


Naming


Ruins of the past


Story is history is story ...