Physical Description
xvi, 344 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The elementary forms of denial
2. Knowing and not-knowing: the psychology of denial
3. Denial at work: mechanisms and rhetorical devices
4. Accounting for atrocities: perpetrators and officials
5. Blocking out the past: personal memories, public histories
6. Bystander states
7. Images of suffering
8. Appeals: outrage into action
9. Digging up graves, opening up wounds: acknowledging the past
10. Acknowledgement now
11. Towards cultures of denial?
Notes
Index.
ISBN
0745616577
0745623921 (pbk.)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-330) and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The elementary forms of denial -- 2. Knowing and not-knowing: the psychology of denial -- 3. Denial at work: mechanisms and rhetorical devices -- 4. Accounting for atrocities: perpetrators and officials -- 5. Blocking out the past: personal memories, public histories -- 6. Bystander states -- 7. Images of suffering -- 8. Appeals: outrage into action -- 9. Digging up graves, opening up wounds: acknowledging the past -- 10. Acknowledgement now -- 11. Towards cultures of denial? -- Notes -- Index.
