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Truth and indignation : Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Residential Schools  Cover Image Book Book

Truth and indignation : Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Residential Schools / Ronald Niezen.

Niezen, Ronald, (author.).

Summary:

Truth and Indignation offers the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as it is unfolding. Using interviews with survivors and oblate priests and nuns, as well as testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission, Niezen raises some very important questions: What makes Canada's TRC different than others around the world? What kinds of narratives are emerging and what do they mean for reconciliation, justice, and conceptions of traumatic memory? And 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? Thoughtful, provocative, and uncompromising, Niezen offers an important contribution to our understanding of the TRC process in general, and the Canadian experience in particular.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781442606302 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 1442606304 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781442607729 (bound)
  • ISBN: 1442607726 (bound)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Issued also in electronic format.
Subject: Truth and Reconcilation Commission of Canada.
Native peoples > Canada > Residential schools.
First Nations > Canada > Residential schools.
Truth commissions > Social aspects > Canada.
Ethnological jurisprudence > Canada.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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Summary: Truth and Indignation offers the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as it is unfolding. Using interviews with survivors and oblate priests and nuns, as well as testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission, Niezen raises some very important questions: What makes Canada's TRC different than others around the world? What kinds of narratives are emerging and what do they mean for reconciliation, justice, and conceptions of traumatic memory? And 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? Thoughtful, provocative, and uncompromising, Niezen offers an important contribution to our understanding of the TRC process in general, and the Canadian experience in particular.

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