02964nam 2200613 a 450 991046525960332120200520144314.00-8047-7737-310.1515/9780804777377(CKB)2560000000072242(EBL)683271(OCoLC)713026458(MiAaPQ)EBC683271(DE-B1597)563600(DE-B1597)9780804777377(Au-PeEL)EBL683271(CaPaEBR)ebr10459559(OCoLC)1198931752(EXLCZ)99256000000007224220100513d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTheaters of justice[electronic resource] judging, staging, and working through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo /Yasco HorsmanStanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20111 online resource (232 p.)Cultural memory in the presentDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-7031-X 0-8047-7032-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 theCultural memory in the present.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatureTrials in literatureJustice in literaturePsychoanalysis and literatureElectronic books.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.Trials in literature.Justice in literature.Psychoanalysis and literature.809/.93358405318Horsman Yasco1045093MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465259603321Theaters of justice2471081UNINA