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Unsettling accounts : neither truth nor reconciliation in confessions of state violence / Leigh A. Payne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Payne, Leigh A.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Cultures and practice of violence series.
- The cultures and practice of violence series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political violence--Case studies.
- Political violence.
- Confession (Law)--Case studies.
- Confession (Law).
- Democratization--Case studies.
- Democratization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (393 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focuses on perpetrators of human rights crimes, investigating confessions by human rights violators in contexts of transitional justice in South America and South Africa.
- Contents:
- Confessional performance
- Remorse
- Heroic confessions
- Sadism
- Denial
- Silence
- Fiction and lies
- Amnesia
- Betrayal.
- Notes:
- "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i].
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-352) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923586
- 9780822340614
- 0822340615
- 9781282923584
- 1282923587
- OCLC:
- 271166254
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