Unsettling Accounts : Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence PDF
by Payne Leigh A. Payne
Part of the a John Hope Franklin Center Book series
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Payne draws on interviews, unedited television film, newspaper archives, and books written by perpetrators to analyze confessions of state violence in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and South Africa. Each of these four countries addressed its past through a different institutional form-from blanket amnesty, to conditional amnesty based on confessions, to judicial trials. Payne considers perpetrators' confessions as performance, examining what they say and what they communicate nonverbally; the timing, setting, and reception of their confessions; and the different ways that they portray their pasts, whether in terms of remorse, heroism, denial, or sadism, or through lies or betrayal.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:392 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:11/01/2008
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- ISBN:9780822390435
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:392 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:11/01/2008
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- ISBN:9780822390435