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The Burden of Traumascapes: Discourses of Remembering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Beyond

The Burden of Traumascapes: Discourses of Remembering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Beyond

Kosatica, Maida

Hardcover

Series: Advances in Sociolinguistics

Literary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 1350134791
ISBN13: 9781350134799
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Nov 3 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Demonstrating the range of linguistic and semiotic practices which are deployed in the construction of war memory, The Burden of Traumascapes investigates the discourses of remembering that are enculturated in the everyday lives of the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Maida Kosatica explores how the memory and narratives of the Bosnian War (1992-5) convey and renegotiate historical acts of violence in quite ordinary, banal ways and extend the war into the present day.

Reintroducing the concept of 'traumascapes', this book demonstrates that semiotic landscapes are marked by traumatic legacies of violence in which the sense of trauma establishes its meaning through the discourses of remembering. In this context, this book argues that discourses of remembering, whether constructed in physical or virtual spaces, stem simultaneously from personal and collective needs to follow moral orders and responsibility, as well as from political, pedagogical and economic demands.

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