Leigh A. Payne

Unsettling Accounts

Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Asks what happens when perpetrators publicly admit or discuss their actions. This book contends that public confessions do not settle the past. It argues that this debate and the public confessions that trigger it are healthy for democratic processes of political participation, freedom of expression, and contestation of political ideas.

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Produktdetails

• The Cultures and Practice of Violence
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340829
• ISBN-10: 0822340828
• Artikelnr.: 22885410

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