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When History Is a Nightmare : Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina | 
 enlarge | Author: Stevan M. Weine
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 751216
Media: Paperback
Pages: 259
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0813526760
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85212
EAN: 9780813526768
ASIN: 0813526760
Publication Date: August 1999
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When History is a Nightmare is an impassioned investigation of how collective memory has shaped history and lives in the Balkans. And how the mishandling of memories of traumatization actually made ethnic cleansing possible. Weine explores how Tito's government pushed memories of World War II ethnic atrocities aside and allowed the Bosnian value of "merhamet", meaning forgiveness and charity, to flourish in the era of living together. But Bosnians were left unable to recognize ethnic nationalism -- and unprepared to defend themselves. He then offers a vivid look at the other side: how Serbian nationalists leaders Jovan Raskovic and Radovan Karadzic manipulated and spread memories to propel Serbs towards genocide. When History is a Nightmare concludes by probing Bosnians' efforts after ethnic cleansing to reconcile their remembrances of living together in multi-ethnic Bosnia with the memories of ethnic atrocities -- a struggle over memory for the Bosnian future.
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a powerful, impressionistic account of the Balkan horrors February 1, 2001
Christopher Robertson (St. Louis, MO United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Weine's book is by no means narrow in its subject-matter. He touches on: inter-ethnic marriage, criticisms of the United Nations, memory as a ground for social morality, the challenges of refugees in America, the construction of psychoses, the social deification of doctors, urbanism, the identity of Europe and the Balkans, the impact of communist cultural censorship, fundamentalism, the social responsibilities of psychiatrists, the need for a permanent UN war crimes court, and discontinuities in the lifepaths of trauma survivors. Any one of these issues could have been the topic for his relatively short 230 page book. But together, they paint a picture of the multifaceted chaos that is ethnic conflict. We get the sense that nothing here is simple, that everything is interconnected, and that the ethnic cleansing is not a psychiatric, geographic, military, or political issue, but fundamentally a human problem of persons. So if you are looking for a deep and careful study of the psychological issues that afflict ethnic cleansing survivors, then I suppose that this book is not your source. If you want, on the other hand, a compelling and touching tour through a recent crisis of human history and a casual chat with a knowledgeable, connected, and compassionate person,then Stevan Weine's book is the perfect choice...END
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