Leigh A Payne

Unsettling Accounts

Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on perpetrators of human rights crimes, investigating confessions by human rights violators in contexts of transitional justice in South America and South Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340614
• ISBN-10: 0822340615
• Artikelnr.: 22882418

Autorenporträt

Leigh A. Payne

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: The Political Power of Confession 1
1. Confessional Performance 13
2. Remorse 41
3. Heroic Confessions 75
4. Sadism 107
5. Denial 141
6. Silence 173
7. Fiction and Lies 197
8. Amnesia 229
9. Betrayal 251
Conclusion: Contentious Coexistence 271
Notes 293
Bibliography 343
Index 353