[단행본] The exonerated : a play

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

What effect does it have on a person—a soul, a life—to have freedom and self-respect stripped away and then, ostensibly, returned years later after decades of incarceration? The Exonerated attempts to answer this question through the words of six innocent men and women who, after years in jail, emerged from death row to try to reclaim what was left of their lives.

Among them are Sunny Jacobs, a mother of two whose unwavering belief during sixteen years in jail that she would be released (despite the execution of her husband, who was also innocent, for the same crime) allowed her to dedicate herself to being a "living memorial" when she was freed. There is Kerry Max Cook, a Texan who was convicted of murdering a young woman even though she was found with another man's hair grasped in her fist—a man whom "Texas killed a thousand times, and just keeps on doing it" in his nightmares. And there is Delbert Tibbs, a black Chicago poet who speaks of his years on death row with anger and bitterness, yet also, as he says, "still sings." All their stories have been compiled and edited by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen into The Exonerated, a play that is both a riveting work of theater and an exploration of the dark side of the American criminal justice system.

국문 초록 (Abstract)

이 자료는 본 연구의 (원자료) 이다.

연구자는 9/11사건 이후 미국 내외에서 지금까지 발생하고 있는 정치, 사회, 경제, 종교에서의 갈등과 변화 양상을 알아보기 위해 다큐멘터리극의 형식을 빌린 정치극인 이 자료를 사용하였다.