Shattered Voices : : Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions / / Teresa Godwin Phelps.
Following periods of mass atrocity and oppression, states are faced with a question of critical importance in the transition to democracy: how to offer redress to victims of the old regime without perpetuating cycles of revenge. Traditionally, balance has been restored through arrests, trials, and p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue for Paulina
- Chapter One. The Demise of Paulina's Good: From Personal Revenge to State Punishment
- Chapter Two. The Demonizing of Revenge
- Chapter Three. Language, Violence, and Oppression
- Chapter Four. What Can Stories Do?
- Chapter Five. Telling Stories in a Search for Justice: The Argentinian, Chilean, and Salvadoran Truth Commissions
- Chapter Six. Telling Stories in a Search for More Than Justice: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Chapter Seven. The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments