Narratives of mass atrocity : victims and perpetrators in the aftermath / edited by Sarah Federman and Ronald Niezen. - pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"During the apex of many incidents of mass violence, those involved could not be more intimately connected: a woman encounters her childhood sweetheart as a killer; a child soils his clothes with the blood of relatives; families that lived side by side peacefully for generations are persuaded to turn on one another; a dominant group persecutes and drives out their politically marginalized neighbors. Lives ended or overturned become defined by that violence as much as those wielding its tools-and all suffer the wounds"--

9781009100298 9781009114837

2022007086


Mass murder.
Massacres.
Murder victims' families.
Violence--Social aspects.
LAW / International

HV 6515 / N37 2022