Truth and Indignation offers the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission as it is unfolding. Niezen uses interviews with survivors and oblate priests and nuns, as well as testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission to raise important questions: What makes Canada's TRC different from others around the world? What kinds of narratives are emerging and what does that mean for reconciliation, transitional justice, and conceptions of traumatic memory? What happens to the ultimate goal of reconciliation when a large part of the testimony that of nuns, priests, and government officials is scarcely evident in the Commission's proceedings? Thoughtful, provocative, and uncompromising in the need to tell the "truth" as he sees it, Niezen offers an important contribution to our understanding of TRC processes in general, and the Canadian experience in particular."
- ISBN10 1442607726
- ISBN13 9781442607729
- Publish Date 6 November 2013 (first published 22 October 2013)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 March 2014
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint University of Toronto Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English