Introduction: Violence Performed
1. Sublime Trauma: The Violence of Ethical Encounter
2. The "Outsider" Outside: Performing Immigration in French Street Theatre
3. The Poetics of Displacement and the Politics of Genocide in Three Plays about Rwanda
4. The Case for Postcolonial Liberalism in Hanif Kureishi's My Son the Fanatic
5. Decorated Death and the Double Whammy: Attempting to Erase the Excluded through Minstrelsy and Lynching
6. Sacrificial Practices: Creating the Legacy of Stephen Lawrence
7. Violence Makes the Body Politic(al): Technologies of Corporeal Literacy in Indian Democracy
8. Performance, Transitional Justice, and the Law: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
9. "To Lie Down to Death for Days": The Turkish Hunger Strike, 2000-2003
10. Violent Reformations: Image Theatre with Youth in Conflict Regions
11. The Arts of Resistance: Arundhati Roy, Denise Uyehara, and the Ethno-Global Imagination
12. Narrative Representations of Violence and Terrorism: Tragedy and History in Hanoch Levin's Theatre
13. Not So Innocent Landscapes: Remembrance, Representation, and the Disappeared
14. Directing Tourists and Escapees: North Korea's Two Conflicting National Performances
15. Abu Ghraib and the Society of the Spectacle of the Scaffold
16. Performance Complexes: Abu Ghraib and the Culture of Neoliberalism
Afterword: "In the Valley of the Shadow of Death": The Photographs of Abu Ghraib
