Description: Product Description : When History Is a Nightmare : Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina Stevan M Weine is a psychiatrist who has spent the past decade working with Bosnian survivors of ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia As he listened to their testimonies Weine concluded that these narratives were capable of bearing a complex truth about the horrific events in Yugoslavia that often were lost in more analytic works on the subject When History is a Nightmare also explores how these traumatic events affected not just individuals but an entire society and its cultureWeine investigates the survivors attempts to reconcile the contrasting collective memories of having lived in a smoothly functioning multiethnic society with the later memories of the ethnic atrocities He discusses the littleknown group concept of merhamet Denoting compassion forgiveness and charity merhamet was a critical cultural value for the Bosnian MuslimsWeine also explores how ethnic cleansing was justified from the vantage point of psychiatrists who played prominent roles in instigating the horrors He also provides personal portraits of leaders such as Jovan Raskovic and Radovan Karadzic He concludes by describing the recovery efforts of survivorshow they work to confront the destructive nature of their memories while trying to bring about healing both individually and collectively( it is an used product )
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Brand: Rutgers University Press
UPC: 9780813526768
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Country of Origin: USA United States
Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1
Dimensions LxWxH - Cms: 6X0.9X9
ISBN-10: 813526760
ISBN-13: 9780813526768
SKU: SONG0813526760
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No. of Pages: 290
Book Title: When History Is a Nightmare : Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleans
Number of Pages: 290 Pages
Publication Name: When History Is a Nightmare : Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 1999
Subject: Europe / Eastern, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Subject Area: Psychology, History
Author: Stevan Weine
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
