Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir

In this pioneering volume, Robert Skloot brings together four plays - three of which are published here for the first time - that fearlessly explore the face of modern genocide. The scripts deal with the destruction of four targeted populations: Armenians in Lorne Shirinian's Exile in the Cradle, Cambodians in Catherine Filloux's Silence of God, Bosnian Muslims in Kitty Felde's A Patch of Earth, and Rwandan Tutsis in Erik Ehn's Maria Kizito. Taken together, these four plays erase the boundaries of theatrical realism to present stories that probe the actions of the perpetrators and the suffering of their victims. A major artistic contribution to the study of the history and effects of genocide, this collection carries on the important journey toward understanding the terror and trauma to which the modern world has so often been witness.

Author: Floyd Skloot
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 01/09/2008
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780299299507
Award: Oregon Book Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2014 pg. 76
New York Times Book Review 06/08/2014 pg. 29
Publishers Weekly 06/16/2014

About the Author
Floyd Skloot is a creative nonfiction writer, essayist, poet, and novelist who lives in Portland, Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois. He is the recipient of many awards, including three Pushcart Prizes and the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction. His writing has appeared in such distinguished magazines as the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Poetry, and American Scholar, and his eighteen books include The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life. In 2010, Poets & Writers named him among "50 of the Most Inspiring Authors in the World."