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Theaters of justice : judging, staging, and working through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo /

What role do legal trials have in collective processes of coming to terms with a history of mass violence? How does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past? This study begins with the widely publicized, historic trial...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Horsman, Yasco
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011.
Series:Cultural memory in the present.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : coming to terms with the past : trial, therapy, and the theater
  • Arendt's laughter : theatricality, pedagogy, and comedy in Eichmann in Jerusalem
  • Founding a nation, healing a wound : on crimes against humanity
  • A cry for justice : Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and after and Days and memory
  • Brecht on trial : the courtroom, the theater, and The measures taken
  • Conclusion : judging, staging, and working through.