Unsettling accounts
Subtitle: neither truth nor reconciliation in confessions of state violence
By: Leigh A. Payne.
Series: The cultures and practice of violence series
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780822340614; 9780822340829
Subjects: Political violence -- Case studies.; Confession (Law) -- Case studies.; Democratization -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-352) and index.
Table of contents: value: Confessional performance; value: Remorse; value: Heroic confessions; value: Sadism; value: Denial; value: Silence; value: Fiction and lies; value: Amnesia; value: Betrayal.