Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth CommissionsUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 24 нояб. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 192 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 punishment, but in the last three decades, more than twenty countries have opted to have a truth commission investigate the crimes of the prior regime and publish a report about the investigation, often incorporating accounts from victims. |
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... murder murder Craves. —John Marston, Antonio's Revenge (1599) “What about my good?” Paulina's question embarrasses Gerardo, and it embarrasses most of us. If we or our loved ones are harmed, we call the police and thereafter depend upon ...
... murdered, to enact revenge upon not only the murderer but also his relatives and even his descendants: “If someone kills you, my friend or brother, I owe you their death and when I have paid my debt to you their friend or brother owes ...
... murdered brother, a dead son. The killer goes on living in the same town After paying blood money, and the bereaved Restrains his proud spirit and broken heart Because he has received payment.” This reference to “blood money,” although ...
... murder, and the versions presented by Aeschylus and Euripedes some three centuries later. In the Odyssey, Zeus relates the tale of Orestes' revenge on Aegisthus with approval: Zeus told Aegisthus “not to kill the man [Agamemnon] and not ...
... murder, and made her pay the penalty prescribed, expulsion from his house. Legal action not murder. That was the course to take. Under the circumstances, a hard choice, true, but the course of self-control and due respect for law, the ...
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2 The Demonizing of Revenge | 24 |
3 Language Violence and Oppression | 38 |
4 What Can Stories Do? | 52 |
The Argentinian Chilean and Salvadoran Truth Commissions | 74 |
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission | 105 |
7 The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually | 118 |
Notes | 129 |
Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 173 |
Acknowledgements | 179 |
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