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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horsman, Yasco
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Cultural memory in the present.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 trials of three Nazi war criminals, Eichmann, Barbie, and Priebke, whose explicit goal was not only to punish, but also to establish an officially sanctioned version of the past. The Truth and Reconciliation commissions in South America and South Africa added a therapeutic goal, acting on the belief that.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (217 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780804777377
0804777373