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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horsman, Yasco.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present.

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Eichmann in Jerusalem.

Arendt, Hannah.

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Massnahme.

Brecht, Bertolt.

Delbo, Charlotte--Criticism and interpretation.

Delbo, Charlotte.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Trials in literature.

Justice in literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804777377

0804777373

OCLC:

713026458