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In the twentieth century, Argentina, Chile, and Spain suffered dictatorships marked by disappearances, torture, and murder, which left wounds that, in some cases, have yet to heal. Moving these public wounds into the realm of performance, many playwrights sought to address these national traumas by creating what I call "posttraumatic theater." This book argues that these plays attempt to represent national crises by taking on stylistic features that mimic the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. Drawing on trauma studies, clinical psychology, and neuroscience, Masking the Past examines...

Discusses aspects of terror with regard to human rights events across the globe, but especially in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. This title demonstrates that the need to question continuously and to engage in permanent critique does not contradict the need to seek answers, to advocate social change, and to intervene critically.