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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791751503321

Autore

Horsman Yasco

Titolo

Theaters of justice [[electronic resource] ] : judging, staging, and working through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo / / Yasco Horsman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8047-7737-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Cultural memory in the present

Disciplina

809/.93358405318

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Trials in literature

Justice in literature

Psychoanalysis and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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