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Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions by Teresa Godwin Phelps (Paperback, 2006)
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There has been until now little analysis of the unarticulated claim that underlies the truth commissions' very existence: that language-in this case narrative stories-can substitute for violence. Acknowledging revenge as a real and deep human need,Shattered Voices explores the benefits and problems inherent when a fragile country seeks to heal its victims without risking its own future.