ENGL 1F97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ingrid De Kok, Ariel Dorfman, Victim Blaming
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Begins the first day after the fall of a dictatorship. We gather this and much of the other info from the radio. Country dedicated to building a new society, one in which errors of the past will not come back and haunt the population. A truth commission as a way of reorienting society towards its new society, and investigate social injustices. Human rights lawyer who was formerly the editor of an anti-fascist student newspaper. Is going to have a possible new role as the head of the new commission (heard over the. As an artist he has to break the silence which was weighing upon so many of my self-censored sompatriots, fearful of creating trouble with the new fragile democracy. He felt that at the time no one was willing to talk about the past, and that the new democracy was fragile. The fragility and uncertainty at the beginning of a new government, democracy, political regime, etc.