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Author Horsman, Yasco

Title Theaters of justice : judging, staging, and working through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo / Yasco Horsman
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Series Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present.
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
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 belief that
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. Eichmann in Jerusalem
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Massnahme.
Delbo, Charlotte -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Delbo, Charlotte fast
Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz et après. idszbz
Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem. idszbz
Brecht, Bertolt. Massnahme. idszbz
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt, Hannah) fast
Auschwitz et après. swd
Eichmann in Jerusalem. swd
Maßnahme. swd
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Trials in literature.
Justice in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
Justice in literature
Psychoanalysis and literature
Trials in literature
Literatur
Massenmord Motiv
Prozess Motiv
Massenmord.
Prozess.
Motiv.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804777377
0804777373