Educational Materials

For discussion groups: commentaries published in the world press:

PERSPECTIVE ON THE GULF WAR: Hymn for the Unsung What obsessions, what mythic readings of Good and Evil, bring young strangers together in the embrace of death?
(written in 1991!)

PERSPECTIVES ON THE SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS: Will the Duendes Prowl in Santiago?

PESPECTIVES ON SUFFERING: on writing Voices From Beyond the Dark.

PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS:
The Other Olympics

ON THE GLOBALIZATION OF JUSTICE: excerpt from Ariel Dorfman's latest book: Exorcising Terror.

For classroom work:

Plays:
Speak Truth to Power
Death and the Maiden

Films:
My House is on Fire in Literacy Through Photography

Stories:
The Rebellion of the Magical Rabbits - in Globe Fearon's World Literature (1998) used in Middle schools in the States.

Poems:
I just Missed the Bus; Last Waltz in Santiago; Vocabulary. . in Against Forgetting, edited by Carolyn Forche. Norton, 1993.

Essays:
Adios General in The Oxford Book of Latin American essays,
edited by Ilan Stavans, 1997, Oxford University Press.
Interventions in the Field of Dreams, in Learning History in America, Minnesotta University Press, 1994, edited by Lloyd Kramer, Donald Reid, William L. Carney.

Speak Truth to Power :Voices From Beyond the Dark