ISBN:
9780822340614
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (393 p)
Series Statement:
a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Unsettling Accounts : Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence
DDC:
303.6/9
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Focuses on perpetrators of human rights crimes, investigating confessions by human rights violators in contexts of transitional justice in South America and South Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Political Power of Confession; 1 Confessional Performance; 2 Remorse; 3 Heroic Confessions; 4 Sadism; 5 Denial; 6 Silence; 7 Fiction and Lies; 8 Amnesia; 9 Betrayal; Conclusion: Contentious Coexistence; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
