Unsettling accounts: neither truth nor reconciliation in confessions of state violence

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Political Power of Confession -- 1 Confessional Performance -- 2 Remorse -- 3 Heroic Confessions -- 4 Sadism -- 5 Denial -- 6 Silence -- 7 Fiction and Lies -- 8 Amnesia -- 9 Betrayal -- Conclusion: Contentious Coexistence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Confessional performance -- Remorse -- Heroic confessions -- Sadism -- Denial -- Silence -- Fiction and lies -- Amnesia -- Betrayal