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When History Is A Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina

When History Is A Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Weine, Stevan

Paperback

CognitionGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0813526760
ISBN13: 9780813526768
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Aug 1 1999
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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 culture.

Weine 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 little-known group concept of merhamet. Denoting compassion, forgiveness, and charity, merhamet was a critical cultural value for the Bosnian Muslims.

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