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| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Death and the Maiden Ariel Dorfman, 1994-12-01 “Suspenseful, riveting . . . Achieves a universality that is movingly personal.” —The New York Times The explosively provocative, award-winning drama set in a country that has just emerged from a totalitarian dictatorship Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man—the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before. Relentlessly paced and filled with lethal surprises, Death and the Maiden is an inquest into the darker side of humanity—one in which everyone is implicated and justice itself comes to seem like a fragile, perhaps ambiguous invention. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Death and the Maiden Ariel Dorfman, 1994 Originally published: London: Nick Hearn Books, 1991. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: How to Read Donald Duck Ariel Dorfman, Armand Mattelart, 1991 The classic, critical and humorous study of cultural imperialism and children's literature; how the Disney fantasy world reproduces the American Dream fantasy world, and the disastrous effect of Disney comics and other mass cultural merchandise on the development of the so-called Third World. In 1973 this work was banned and burned in Chile, and later the English edition was banned for more than a year by the US government. In comic book format with cartoon examples, introduction by David KUNZLE on the Disney world, a bibliography of left writings on cultural imperialism and the comics, and an appendix by John Shelton LAWRENCE on the book's US censorship and the legal-political issues involved in the right to criticize Disney |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Feeding on Dreams Ariel Dorfman, 2012 Dorfman portrays, through visceral scenes and powerful intellect, the personal and political maelstroms underlying his migrations from Buenos Aires, on the run from Pinochet's death squads, to safe houses in Paris and Amsterdam, and eventually to America, his childhood home. The toll on Dorfman's wife and two sons, the 'earthquake of language' that is bilingualism, and his eventual questioning of his allegiance to past and party - all these crucibles of a life in exile are revealed with wry and startling honesty. Feeding on Dreams is a passionate reminder that 'we are all exiles', that we are all 'threatened with annihilation if we do not find and celebrate the refuge of common humanity', as Dorfman did during his 'decades of loss and resurrection'. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Death and the Maiden Ariel Dorfman, 1995 Years have passed since political prisoner, Paulina, suffered at the hands of her captor: a man whose face she never saw, but whom she can still recall with terrifying clarity. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Heading South, Looking North Ariel Dorfman, 1999-05-01 In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman switched languages and countries--not once, but three times--is a day-to-day account of his multiple escapes from death during Pinochet's military takeover of Chile in 1973. Combining eight vignettes of his life before 1973 with eight scenes from the coup, Dorfman filters these events through an engaging, hybrid consciousness.A beautifully written and deeply moving auto-biography by one of the greatest living Latin American writers (Newsweek), Heading South, Looking North is at once a vivid account of a life as complex and mysterious as the fictional characters Dorfman has created, and an enthralling search for a permanent home, a political cause, and a cultural identity. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Theatre and Human Rights after 1945 Mary Luckhurst, Emilie Morin, 2016-04-29 This volume investigates the rise of human rights discourses manifested in the global spectrum of theatre and performance since 1945. Essays address topics such as disability, discrimination indigenous rights, torture, gender violence, genocide and elder abuse. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Darwin's Ghosts Ariel Dorfman, 2018-11-06 From the author of Death and the Maiden and other works that explore relations of power in the postcolonial world comes the story of a man whose distant past comes to haunt him. Is the sordid story behind human zoos that flourished in Europe in the nineteenth century connected somehow to a boy's life a hundred years later? On Fitzroy Foster's fourteenth birthday on September 11, 1981, he receives an unexpected and unwelcome gift: when his father snaps his picture with a Polaroid, another person's image appears in the photo. Fitzroy and his childhood sweetheart, Cam, set out on a decade-long journey in search of this stranger's identity—and to reinstate his own—across seas and continents, into the far past and the evil and good that glint in the eyes of the elusive visitor. Seamlessly weaving together fact and fiction, Darwin's Ghosts holds up a different light to Conrad's The horror! The horror! and a different kind of answer to the urgent questions, Who are we? And what can we do about it? |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Purgatorio Ariel Dorfman, 2006 A man and a woman enter a room. We see only a small bed, two chairs, and a table. Is it an asylum? A prison? Interrogation room? Questions are asked and answered. We feel we know the story. In this room, both the man and woman are faced with the truths of their lives. Playwright Ariel Dorfman puts before us the question of justice and forgiveness. Are there crimes for which there can be no forgiveness? If there is no forgiveness, how do we move on with our lives? Purgatorio reacquaints us with the tragedy of Jason and Medea.--Publisher's website. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: The Compensation Bureau Ariel Dorfman, 2021-07 I have created for each of you a fate, one tailored specifically for your needs and desires. Each of you has a defining moment--not before, not after--when a wrong turn or decision led to the disastrous outcome that you and I mourn. To isolate that malignant moment is an exacting, exhaustive process, which only the most well-trained and competent professionals, armed with the most sophisticated of predictive models and processing power, can accomplish. You can put your trust in me, as you would in an expert surgeon, a surgeon of the soul. On a distant planet overlooking Earth, the nameless protagonist of The Compensation Bureau is one of a team of Actuaries at work on the innovative Lazarus Project. Conceived in response to the shocking violence observed in humankind, the project identifies people who have wrongfully died at the hands of others--whether victims of war, hate crimes, or random brutality--and attempts to compensate for the cruelty and pain they faced in life and death. But balancing the accounts for the sufferings and wrongdoings of humanity proves hardly a clinical exercise. The Actuary soon finds himself personally invested in the project's mission, and the goals of the project itself are complicated as the fate of Earth's inhabitants becomes more uncertain. The Compensation Bureau explores the power of individual and collective action, from a writer hailed by The Washington Post as a world-novelist of the first category. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Some Write to the Future Ariel Dorfman, 1991 Case studies tricked-out to resemble short fiction. No index or literature references. Seven essays by Chilean novelist and social critic Dorfman, profile the work of other Latin American writers, including Asturias, Borges, and Marquez. This is the first English translation of the essays, which were written and published over a 20-year span. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Konfidenz Ariel Dorfman, 2003 Told almost exclusively through dialogue, Konfidenz opens with a woman entering a hotel room and receiving a call from a mysterious stranger who seems to know everything about her and the reasons why she has fled her homeland. Over the next nine hours he tells her many disturbing things about her lover (who may be in great danger), the political situation in which they are enmeshed, and his fantasies of her. A terse political allegory that challenges our assumptions about character, the foundations of our knowledge, and the making of history, Konfidenz draws the reader into a postmodern mystery where nothing--including the text itself--is what it seems. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Reader Ariel Dorfman, 2008 A censor discovers that the subversive novel he is about to ban is describing his own life and hinting that a terrible fate awaits his son. He must hunt down the author before it comes true... |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Cautivos Ariel Dorfman, 2019 Set in the last years of the 16th century, Cautivos is a meditation on writing, writers, and creativity. More than that, this short novel is about confinement, both of the mind and of the body, and therefore also about liberation. Then as now, Islam and Christianity were at loggerheads and women found themselves playing new roles, and imprisonment or worse was society's answer to everything from murder to dissent.-- |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Playland Athol Fugard, 1994 |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Desert Memories Ariel Dorfman, 2011-06-15 The Norte Grande of Chile, the world's driest desert, had ''engendered contemporary Chile, everything that was good about it, everything that was dreadful,'' writes Ariel Dorfman in his brilliant exploration of one of the least known and most exotic corners of the globe. For 10,000 years the desert had been mined for silver, iron, and copper, but it was the 19th-century discovery of nitrate that transformed the country into a modern state and forced the desert's colonization. The mines' riches generated mansions and oligarchs in Chile's more temperate region—and terrible inequalities throughout the country. The Norte Grande also gave birth to the first Chilean democratic and socialist movements, nurturing every major political figure of modern Chile from Salvador Allende to Augusto Pinochet. In this richly layered personal memoir, illustrated with the author's own photographs, Dorfman sets out to explore the origins of contemporary Chile—and, along the way, seek out his wife's European ancestors who came years ago to Chile as part of the nitrate rush. And, most poignantly, he looks for traces of his friend and fellow 1960s activist, Freddy Taberna, executed by a firing squad in a remote Pinochet death camp. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Other Septembers, Many Americas Ariel Dorfman, 2004-07-06 Let me tell you, America, of the hopes I had for you, Dorfman writes after the fall of the Twin Towers, remembering back to an earlier September 11 in 1973, when he was on the staff of Salvador Allende, then president of Chile, the day he was removed from office and murdered in a coup in which the U.S. government was complicit. Beware the plague of victimhood, America . . . Nothing is more dangerous than a giant who is afraid. Included in Other Septembers, Many Americas are major essays about the America south of the border, exploring the ambiguous relationship between power and literature and touching on topics as diverse as bilingualism, barbarians, and video games. In the essay A Different Drum, Dorfman asks, Isn’t it time, as war approaches yet again, to tell each other stories of peace over and over again? Over and over in these jewel-like essays, his best shorter work of the last quarter-century, Dorfman weaves together sentiment and politics with his sense of the larger historical questions, reminding Americans of our unique role in the world, so different from the one put forward by the current administration: the power to resist and to imagine. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Killology Gary Owen, 2017-03-24 In Killology, players are rewarded for torturing victims, scoring points for “creativity”. But Killology isn’t sick. In fact it’s marketed by its millionaire creator as a deeply moral experience. Because yes, you can live out your darkest fantasies, but you don’t escape their consequences. Out on the streets, not everybody agrees with him. “There is an instinctive revulsion against taking a human life. And that revulsion can be conquered.” |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: The Last Song of Manuel Sendero Ariel Dorfman, 1987 Denying the future until government leaders end repression, revolutionary fetuses refusing to be born begin to argue amongst themselves and one by one choose to be born until only the son of Manuel Sendero is left. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: How to Read Donald Duck Ariel Dorfman, 2022-05-31 First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the capitalist ideology at work in our most beloved cartoons. Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney--curiously parentless, marginalized, always short of cash--Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart dissect the narratives of dependency and social aspiration that define the Disney corpus. Disney recognized the challenge, and when the book was translated and imported into the U.S. in 1975, managed to have all 4,000 copies impounded. Ultimately, 1,500 copies of the book were allowed into the country, the rest of the shipment was blocked, and until now no American publisher has dared re-release the book, which sold over a million copies worldwide and has been translated into seventeen languages. A devastating indictment of a media giant, a document of twentieth-century political upheaval, and a reminder of the dark undercurrent of pop culture, How to Read Donald Duck is once again available, together with a new introduction by Ariel Dorfman. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Widows Ariel Dorfman, Edith Grossman, 1997 A novel of individual courage and resilience in the face of totalitarian oppression from the author of Death and the Maiden, together with the author's poems on exile and the disappeared. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Exorcising Terror Ariel Dorfman, 2003 'This is an excellent, quick and powerful read, accessible to everyone' Publishers WeeklyOn October 16th, 1998, the world awoke to amazing news: General Augusto Pinochet, Chile's former dictator, had been arrested by Scotland Yard in England & was awaiting extradition to Spain on charges of torture & genocide. What ensued became one of the most important human rights trials of the last fifty years: for the first time in the twentieth century, a former Head of State was being judged by a foreign court.Renowned author Ariel Dorfman, obsessed for twenty-five years with the malignant shadow General Pinochet cast upon Chile & the world, followed every twist & turn of the four year trial in Great Britain, Spain & Chile as well as in the U.S., the country that had created Pinochet. Told as a suspense thriller, filled with court-room drama & sudden reversals of fortune, the book at the same time addresses some of today's most burning issues, made all the more urgent after the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001. What are the limits of national sovereignty in a globalizing world? How does an ever more interconnected world judge crimes committed against humanity? What role do memory & pain & the rights of the survivors play in this struggle for a new system of justice? But above all, the author, by listening carefully to the voices of Pinochet's many victims, explores how can we purge ourselves of terror & fear once we have been traumatized, and asks if we can build peace & reconciliation without facing a turbulent & perverse past.From Dorfman's emotional reconstitution of the many phases of Pinochet's trial, both in London & in Santiago, there slowly emerges a picture of a victory, both for the people of Chile & for people the world over, serving as a prelude to the prosecution of other Heads of State - such as Milosevic in The Hague - but as a warning to many powerful men around the world - like Henry Kissinger - who felt they would never be held accountable for sufferings inflicted on faraway civilians. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Widows Ariel Dorfman, 2002-07-09 Set in a Greek village in 1942, and purportedly written from his imagination by a Danish man before he was picked up by the Gestapo and not seen again, here is Ariel Dorfman’s haunting and universal parable of individual courage in the face of political oppression. Widows forms a testament to the disappeared—those living under totalitarian regimes the world over, who are taken away for questioning and never return. One by one, the bodies of men wash up on the shore of the river, where they are claimed by the women of the local town as husbands and fathers, even though the faces of the dead men are unrecognizable. A tug-of-war ensues between the local police, who insist that the women couldn’t possibly recognize their loved ones, and the women demanding the right to bury their beloveds. As it evolves, the stand-off reveals itself to be a power struggle between love, dignity and honor, and the lesser god of brute force. A lesson in how power really works, and how it can be made to work differently. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Reckoning with Pinochet Steve J. Stern, 2010-04-30 Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet’s legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America’s “dirty war” dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to some and criminal to others, the general cast a long shadow over Chile’s future. Steve J. Stern recounts the full history of Chile’s democratic reckoning, from the negotiations in 1989 to chart a post-dictatorship transition; through Pinochet’s arrest in London in 1998; the thirtieth anniversary, in 2003, of the coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende; and Pinochet’s death in 2006. He shows how transnational events and networks shaped Chile’s battles over memory, and how the Chilean case contributed to shifts in the world culture of human rights. Stern’s analysis integrates policymaking by elites, grassroots efforts by human rights victims and activists, and inside accounts of the truth commissions and courts where top-down and bottom-up initiatives met. Interpreting solemn presidential speeches, raucous street protests, interviews, journalism, humor, cinema, and other sources, he describes the slow, imperfect, but surprisingly forceful advance of efforts to revive democratic values through public memory struggles, despite the power still wielded by the military and a conservative social base including the investor class. Over time, resourceful civil-society activists and select state actors won hard-fought, if limited, gains. As a result, Chileans were able to face the unwelcome past more honestly, launch the world’s first truth commission to examine torture, ensnare high-level perpetrators in the web of criminal justice, and build a public culture of human rights. Stern provides an important conceptualization of collective memory in the wake of national trauma in this magisterial work of history. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again Ilan Stavans, 2020-08-11 In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting digital anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, and artists from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. Net proceeds benefit booksellers in need. As our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, writers offer a powerful antidote to the fearful confines of isolation: a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own. In Mauritius, a journalist contends with denialism and mourns the last days of summer, lost to the lockdown. In Paris, a writer struggles to protect his young son from fear. In Chile, protesters who prevailed against tear gas and rubber bullets are now halted by a virus. In Queens, after thirteen-hour shifts in the ER, a doctor dons running shoes and makes the long jog home. And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes its title from the last line of Dante's Inferno, when the poet and his guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the heavens. In that spirit, the stories, essays, poems, and artwork in this collection--from beloved authors including Jhumpa Lahiri, Mario Vargas Llosa, Eavan Boland, Daniel Alarcón, Jon Lee Anderson, Claire Messud, Ariel Dorfman, and many more--detail the harrowing experiences of life in the pandemic, while pointing toward a less isolated future. Together, they comprise a profound global portrait of the defining moment of our time, and send a clarion call for solidarity across borders. Our literary culture depends on bookstores--and those irreplaceable sources of conversation and community, of inspiration and solace, have been decimated by the lockdown. Net proceeds from And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again will go to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, which helps the passionate booksellers we readers depend upon. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Manifesto for Another World Ariel Dorfman, 2003-10-07 In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. Manifesto for Another World features the words and struggles of internationally celebrated activists including Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzón, Helen Prejean, and Marian Wright Edelman; and Nobel Prize Laureates the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Oscar Arias Sánchez, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, José Ramos-Horta, and Bobby Muller. Equally moving are the stories of more than thirty others, unknown and (as yet) unsung beyond their national boundaries: Kailash Satyarthi, who has spent a lifetime working to free tens of thousands of victims of child labor in his native India, and Juliana Dogbadzi, who was sold into sexual slavery by her parents at age twelve, escaped after seventeen degrading years, and now is devoted to the liberation of African girls bound in the same terror. From their ranging voices Dorfman culls the message: freedom from persecution, and freedom of opportunity, for all. Manifesto for Another World is both a political testament and a work of art. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Burning City Ariel Dorfman, Joaquin Dorfman, 2007-12-18 It is the simmering summer of 2001 in New York City. Heller is the youngest employee of Soft Tidings, a messenger service whose motto is “news with a personal touch.” At Soft Tidings, a message is not handed over but told to the recipient. And the messages, as a rule, are not especially good news. Heller prefers his bike to the mandatory Rollerblades, and he gets away with his maniacal bike riding because he is, hands down, the best deliverer of bad news. This summer will be memorable for Heller as he finds himself drawn into the lives of a wildly diverse cast of characters, accidentally falling in love, and relating to people in a whole new way. From the Hardcover edition. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Mad Forest Caryl Churchill, 1992 This timely drama resulted from a trip to Romania. Developed with students from London's Central School of Drama, this is an incisive portrait of society in turmoil that focuses on two families to reveal what life is like under a totalitarian regime and what results when the regime collapses. The play's brief scenes are almost cinematic in their presentation of events as seen by ordinary people trying to live in peace. -- Publisher's description |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: God and the Indian Drew Hayden Taylor, 2014 Questions the impact of Indian boarding schools on former students sent for Christian reform and the clergy assigned the task. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: The Essential Neruda Pablo Neruda, 2010 Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. A prolific, inspirational poet, he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes, notably love, death, grief and despair. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Chimerica Lucy Kirkwood, 2013 The smash-hit play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Last Waltz in Santiago and Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance Ariel Dorfman, 1988 |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Mascara Ariel Dorfman, 2004-07-06 Mascara delves into the dark terrain of identity and disguise when the lives of three people collide. A nameless man with a face no one remembers has the devastating ability to see and capture on film the brutal truths lurking inside each person he encounters. Oriana, a beautiful woman with the memory of an innocent child, is relentlessly pursued by mysterious figures from her past. Doctor Mavirelli is a brilliant and power-hungry plastic surgeon who controls society’s most prominent figures by shaping their faces. The twining of these three fates plays out in a climactic unmasking. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: The Twilight Zone Nona Fernández, 2021-03-16 * Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature * An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space Invaders It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández’s mesmerizing and terrifying novel The Twilight Zone is a child when she first sees this man’s face on the magazine’s cover with the words “I Tortured People.” His complicity in the worst crimes of the regime and his commitment to speaking about them haunt the narrator into her adulthood and career as a writer and documentarian. Like a secret service agent from the future, through extraordinary feats of the imagination, Fernández follows the “man who tortured people” to places that archives can’t reach, into the sinister twilight zone of history where morning routines, a game of chess, Yuri Gagarin, and the eponymous TV show of the novel’s title coexist with the brutal yet commonplace machinations of the regime. How do crimes vanish in plain sight? How does one resist a repressive regime? And who gets to shape the truths we live by and take for granted? The Twilight Zone pulls us into the dark portals of the past, reminding us that the work of the writer in the face of historical erasure is to imagine so deeply that these absences can be, for a time, spectacularly illuminated. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Methodology of Research in Social Sciences O. R. Krishnaswamy, 2018 |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Resurrection Blues Arthur Miller, 2006-02-07 Arthur Miller’s penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would happen if Christ were to appear in the world today? In an unidentified Latin American country, General Felix Barriaux has captured an elusive revolutionary leader. The rebel, known by various names, is rumored to have performed miracles throughout the countryside. The General plans to crucify the mysterious man, and the exclusive television rights to the twenty-four-hour reality-TV event have been sold to an American network for $25 million. An allegory that asserts the interconnectedness of our actions and each person’s culpability in world events, Resurrection Blues is a comedic and tragic satire of precarious morals in our media-saturated age. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: The Archbishop's Ceiling Arthur Miller, 2015-12-01 A masterful mix of art, sex, and politics behind the Iron Curtain, by America’s greatest dramatist In an unnamed Eastern European capital, four writers gather in what was once an archbishop’s palace. There is Adrian, a successful American author struggling with questions about a novel he has set in the city, and Marcus, a once-imprisoned radical who has become a darling of the current regime. Finally, there is Sigmund, perhaps the country’s greatest living writer, who refuses to compromise his artistic integrity to appease the regime. Between them all is Maya, a poet and actress who has been a mistress and muse to each man. The ornately decorated ceiling above them may or may not be bugged, and the group carefully watches their words as they discuss the play’s central dilemma – should Sigmund stay and resist the oppressive state, or should he defect and pursue his art in freedom? Their conversation poses crucial questions about mass surveillance, morality, and the authenticity of art, and remains as relevant today as it was during the height of the Cold War. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Cal Bernard MacLaverty, 2011-03-01 For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple... He can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella. Springing out of the fear and violence of Ulster, Cal is a haunting love story in a land were tenderness and innocence can only flicker briefly in the dark. |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: Popol Vuh: A Retelling Ilan Stavans, 2020-11-10 An inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Maya myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans, gorgeously illustrated by Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios and introduced by renowned author, diplomat, and environmental activist Homero Aridjis. The archetypal creation story of Latin America, the Popol Vuh began as a Maya oral tradition millennia ago. In the mid-sixteenth century, as indigenous cultures across the continent were being threatened with destruction by European conquest and Christianity, it was written down in verse by members of the K’iche’ nobility in what is today Guatemala. In 1701, that text was translated into Spanish by a Dominican friar and ethnographer before vanishing mysteriously. Cosmic in scope and yet intimately human, the Popol Vuh offers invaluable insight into the Maya way of life before being decimated by colonization—their code of ethics, their views on death and the afterlife, and their devotion to passion, courage, and the natural world. It tells the story of how the world was created in a series of rehearsals that included wooden dummies, demi-gods, and eventually humans. It describes the underworld, Xibalba—a place as harrowing as Dante’s hell—and relates the legend of the ultimate king, who, in the face of tragedy, became a spirit that accompanies his people in their struggle for survival. Popol Vuh: A Retelling is a one-of-a-kind prose rendition of this sacred text that is as seminal as the Bible and the Qur’an, the Ramayana and the Odyssey. Award-winning scholar of Latin American literature Ilan Stavans brings a fresh creative energy to the Popol Vuh, giving a new generation of readers the opportunity to connect with this timeless story and with the plight of the indigenous people of the Americas. Praise for Popol Vuh: A Retelling: “Salvadoran illustrator Larios provides lush images to accompany stories of the Earth and the underworld, Xibalba, and the animals and gods that inhabit them…. A beautiful interpretation of pivotal Central American history told through contemporary illustration and language.” —Kirkus Reviews “In these pages you will find an adroit retelling of a complex and often confusing tale with a vast and bewildering cast of characters. Approaching the Popol Vuh with a fresh eye and the necessary erudition, Ilan Stavans, the distinguished scholar of Hispanic culture, nimbly conveys the content and the sense of the original, retaining its magic and fascination, while rendering it more accessible to a wider readership. Popol Vuh: A Retelling artfully presents the case for the centrality of this magisterial story to the cultural consciousness of the Americas and for the urgency of its message.” —Homero Aridjis, from the foreword At a time when so many of us ask ourselves about the end of the world as we know it, few books could be more relevant than this sacred text of the Maya. In a mesmerizing, illuminating new translation, Ilan Stavans brings to contemporary readers this lyrical epic, with its messages from a lost civilization obsessed, as ours should be, with the inevitable cycles of catastrophe and change. The Popol Vuh encourages us to contemplate the perpetual conflict between truth and falsehood, light and darkness, so that we may find the wisdom to emerge as better people. —Ariel Dorfman, author of Death and the Maiden Popol Vuh is one of the seminal foundational 'texts' of the Americas before it became 'America'—and one so few of us really know much about. Again, Ilan Stavans is infusing the US of A with the cultures and stories that have been traditionally erased or ignored and forgotten. All I can say is, another amazing Stavans project! —Julia Alvarez The Popol Vuh is the great book of creation of the Maya K'iche' culture, and Ilan Stavans has embarked on an intrepid adventure of recreation; he returns to a myth of origin to endow it with vibrant topicality, proving that rewriting a legend is a way of bewitching time. —Juan Villoro, author of God Is Round “Many translators, scholars, and poets have brought us close to the radiant eminence of our Mayan origin story, the Popol Vuh. None touch its wondrous dynamism and epic elegance like Stavans and Larios. Free of the formal constraints of the K’iche’ original, Stavans’s delivers a masterful retelling that invites us into chimeric dreams: from the mischievous first peoples and the quests of those grown from seeds, to hybrid creatures and demi-god twins with battles lost and won. Larios’s dexterous admixture of cool washes and vibrant color palettes along with a K’iche’-inspired line-work aesthetic, further unzip our minds to a shared ancestral imaginary. Only my Guatemalan abuelita could cast such storytelling spells over me. Together, Stavans and Larios invite us all to dance as the children we once were and will become. A gift!” —Frederick Luis Aldama, author of Long Stories Cut Short: Fiction from the Borderlands “Ilan Stavans's retelling of this ancient and sacred story of the Mayan people is as exquisitely written as it is necessary.” —Eduardo Halfon, author of Mourning Praise for Ilan Stavans: “Ilan Stavans is an inventive interpreter of the contemporary cultures of the Americas…. Cantankerous and clever, sprightly and serious, Stavans is a voracious thinker. In his writing, life serves to illuminate literature—and vice versa: he is unafraid to court controversy, unsettle opinions, make enemies. In short, Stavans is an old-fashioned intellectual, a brilliant interpreter of his triple heritage—Jewish, Mexican, and American.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “…in the void created by the death of his compatriot Octavio Paz, Ilan Stavans has emerged as Latin America’s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast.” —The Washington Post “Ilan Stavans has done as much as anyone alive to bridge the hemisphere’s linguistic gaps.” —The Miami Herald “A canon-maker.” —The Chronicle of Higher Education “Ilan Stavans is a maverick intellectual whose canonical work has already produced a whole array of marvels... His incisive essays are redefining Jewish literature.” —The Forward “Ilan Stavans is the rarest of North American writers—he sees the Americas whole. Not since Octavio Paz has Mexico given us an intellectual so able to violate borders, with learning and grace.” —Richard Rodriguez “In the multicultural rainbow that is contemporary America, no one may be more representative of the state of the union than Ilan Stavans.” —Newsday “Ilan Stavans may very well succeed in becoming the Octavio Paz of our age.” —The San Francisco Chronicle “A virtuoso critic with an exuberant, encyclopedic, restless mind.” —The Forward “Ilan Stavans has the sharp eye of the internal exile. Writing about the sometimes reluctant reconquista of North America by Spanish-speaking cultures or the development of his own identity, he deals with both the life of the mind and the life of the streets.” —John Sayles “Lively and intelligent, eclectic, sharp-tongued.” —Peter Matthiessen “I think Stavans has one of the best grips around on what makes Spanish America tick.” —Gregory Rabassa “Ilan Stavans is a disciple of Kafka and Borges. He accepts social identity broadly, in the most cosmopolitan terms… His impulse is to broaden, not to narrow; he finds understanding through complication of identity, not through the easy gestures of ethnic politics.” —The New York Times “Ilan Stavans has established himself as an invaluable commentator of literature.” —Phillip Lopate |
| death and the maiden by ariel dorfman: #aiww Howard Brenton, Weiwei Ai, 2013 A riveting political thriller based on the arrest and imprisonment of one of China's leading dissident artists. |
Death and the Maiden - Archive.org
Death and the Maiden was released as a feature film in 1994, with a screenplay by Rafael Yglesias and Ariel Dorfman, and the following cast: PAULINA Sigourney Weaver
Death and the Maiden: A Journey Through Justice and Trauma
Ariel Dorfman's masterpiece explores the aftermath of trauma, the pursuit of justice, and the difficult transition from dictatorship to democracy. Set in "probably Chile", this powerful play …
Death and the Maiden - cdn.bookey.app
In Ariel Dorfman's gripping play *Death and the Maiden*, the chilling remnants of a totalitarian regime clash with the fragile echoes of justice and redemption. Set against the backdrop of a …
The Life and Times of Death and the Maiden - JSTOR
Death and the Maiden Robert A. Mor ace The rise and fall of Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden is a subject worthy of close scrutiny, particularly now, following the arrest of Augusto …
Death and the Maiden - cpb-ap-se2.wpmucdn.com
Paulina Salas is seated in a chair on the terrace, as if she were drinking in the light of the moon. The sound of a faraway car can be heard. She hurriedly stands up, goes to the other room, …
Death And The Maiden By Ariel Dorfman - archive.ncarb.org
Death and the Maiden Ariel Dorfman,1994-12-01 Suspenseful riveting Achieves a universality that is movingly personal The New York Times The explosively provocative award winning drama …
Truth and reconciliation: Confronting the past in Death and …
Truth and reconciliaton: Confronting the past in Death and the Maiden and Playland imaginary inheres in the plays’ characters, in their struggle to come to terms with their past experiences …
Death and the Maiden and Its Relevance to Society and …
Death and the Maiden despite rooted with Chilean history, it is aimed towards every country that faces a political split and a rise in feminism. It is Ariel Dorfman‟s aim to bring universality to the …
Death and the Ariel Dorfman - people.stu.ca
His most famous play, Death and the Maiden, describes the encounter of a former torture victim with the man she believed tortured her; it was made into a film in 1994.
Ariel Dorfman’s Play Death and the Maiden: A Moral Thriller
Death and the Maiden is an instruction in the psyche of people who lose their ability for usual consideration on being subjected to traumatic experiences. The burning issues are discovered …
Death and the Maiden - Internet Archive
Death and the Maiden BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF ARIEL DORFMAN Ariel Dorfman is the son of Fanny Dorfman and Adolf Dorfman, an Argentine professor of economics. The family moved …
Death And The Maiden By Ariel Dorfman (book)
Death and the Maiden Ariel Dorfman,1994-12-01 Suspenseful riveting Achieves a universality that is movingly personal The New York Times The explosively provocative award winning drama …
ARIEL DORFMAN'S DEATH AND THE MAIDEN - JSTOR
This paper attempts to study how the three alternative discourses are constructed and counterpointed, and to what extent, by using defamiliarising techniques, the issues they deal …
On Dorfman's Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman tells us in the stage directions to Death and the Maiden, "and the place, a country that is probably Chile but could be any country that has given itself a democratic government …
Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden is a moral thriller about a woman, Paulina, who believes that a stranger who comes to her home is the doctor who, under a military dictatorship, …
Death And The Maiden By Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study …
A discussion of the ways in which Ariel Dorfman’s play Death …
The play Death and the Maiden by Chilean dramatist Ariel Dorfman centres upon the dramatic conflict between three main characters, Paulina Salas, Roberto Miranda and Gerardo …
Dorfman Death And The Maiden - data.oeconsortium.org
Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study …
compiled by Renée Zipp - Bag & Baggage Productions
Death and the Maiden, which premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre on July 9, 1991, confronts the afterefects and psychological damage of people in a country emerging from the …
Service the Superior: An Examination of Women’s …
Ariel Dorfman’s play In Death and the Maiden (1991), being a woman serves to legally, politically, and socially prevent justice for Paulina, a rape and kidnap-
Death and the Maiden - Archive.org
Death and the Maiden was released as a feature film in 1994, with a screenplay by Rafael Yglesias and Ariel Dorfman, and the following cast: PAULINA Sigourney Weaver
Death and the Maiden: A Journey Through Justice and Trauma
Ariel Dorfman's masterpiece explores the aftermath of trauma, the pursuit of justice, and the difficult transition from dictatorship to democracy. Set in "probably Chile", this powerful play …
Death and the Maiden - cdn.bookey.app
In Ariel Dorfman's gripping play *Death and the Maiden*, the chilling remnants of a totalitarian regime clash with the fragile echoes of justice and redemption. Set against the backdrop of a …
The Life and Times of Death and the Maiden - JSTOR
Death and the Maiden Robert A. Mor ace The rise and fall of Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden is a subject worthy of close scrutiny, particularly now, following the arrest of Augusto …
Death and the Maiden - cpb-ap-se2.wpmucdn.com
Paulina Salas is seated in a chair on the terrace, as if she were drinking in the light of the moon. The sound of a faraway car can be heard. She hurriedly stands up, goes to the other room, …
Death And The Maiden By Ariel Dorfman - archive.ncarb.org
Death and the Maiden Ariel Dorfman,1994-12-01 Suspenseful riveting Achieves a universality that is movingly personal The New York Times The explosively provocative award winning drama …
Truth and reconciliation: Confronting the past in Death and …
Truth and reconciliaton: Confronting the past in Death and the Maiden and Playland imaginary inheres in the plays’ characters, in their struggle to come to terms with their past experiences …
Death and the Maiden and Its Relevance to Society and …
Death and the Maiden despite rooted with Chilean history, it is aimed towards every country that faces a political split and a rise in feminism. It is Ariel Dorfman‟s aim to bring universality to the …
Death and the Ariel Dorfman - people.stu.ca
His most famous play, Death and the Maiden, describes the encounter of a former torture victim with the man she believed tortured her; it was made into a film in 1994.
Ariel Dorfman’s Play Death and the Maiden: A Moral Thriller
Death and the Maiden is an instruction in the psyche of people who lose their ability for usual consideration on being subjected to traumatic experiences. The burning issues are discovered …
Death and the Maiden - Internet Archive
Death and the Maiden BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF ARIEL DORFMAN Ariel Dorfman is the son of Fanny Dorfman and Adolf Dorfman, an Argentine professor of economics. The family moved …
Death And The Maiden By Ariel Dorfman (book)
Death and the Maiden Ariel Dorfman,1994-12-01 Suspenseful riveting Achieves a universality that is movingly personal The New York Times The explosively provocative award winning drama …
ARIEL DORFMAN'S DEATH AND THE MAIDEN - JSTOR
This paper attempts to study how the three alternative discourses are constructed and counterpointed, and to what extent, by using defamiliarising techniques, the issues they deal …
On Dorfman's Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman tells us in the stage directions to Death and the Maiden, "and the place, a country that is probably Chile but could be any country that has given itself a democratic government …
Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden is a moral thriller about a woman, Paulina, who believes that a stranger who comes to her home is the doctor who, under a military dictatorship, …
Death And The Maiden By Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study …
A discussion of the ways in which Ariel Dorfman’s play Death …
The play Death and the Maiden by Chilean dramatist Ariel Dorfman centres upon the dramatic conflict between three main characters, Paulina Salas, Roberto Miranda and Gerardo …
Dorfman Death And The Maiden - data.oeconsortium.org
Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study …
compiled by Renée Zipp - Bag & Baggage Productions
Death and the Maiden, which premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre on July 9, 1991, confronts the afterefects and psychological damage of people in a country emerging from the …
Service the Superior: An Examination of Women’s …
Ariel Dorfman’s play In Death and the Maiden (1991), being a woman serves to legally, politically, and socially prevent justice for Paulina, a rape and kidnap-
