20th century global politics
A01=Habiba Metikos
A01=Jasmina Tesanovic
A01=Julie A. Mertus
A01=Rada Boric
Author_Habiba Metikos
Author_Jasmina Tesanovic
Author_Julie A. Mertus
Author_Rada Boric
belongings
bosnia
brutality
Category=DNBM
Category=JBFG
Category=JHM
Category=NHW
civil war
civilian victims
courage
croatia
dishonor
dislocation
displacement
diversity
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eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
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eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
exile
forced departure
former yugoslavia
human tragedy
injustice
international relations
islam
lost community
media coverage
memoirs
militarism
muslim women
perseverance
personal narratives
politics
prejudice
refugee voices
refugees
religious refugees
war zone conditions
warfare
Product details
- ISBN 9780520206342
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jan 1997
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The whirlwind of Europe's longest war in half a century has produced this powerful collection of personal narratives - essays, letters, and poems - from refugees fleeing Bosnia and Croatia. Taking us behind the barrage of media coverage, these stories tell of perseverance, brutality, forced departure, exile, and courage. With startling immediacy and in moving detail, speakers tell of stuffing a few belongings - a handful of photographs, a rock from the garden, a change of clothes--into a suitcase and fleeing their homeland. Contributors from all ethnic groups and every region of Bosnia and Croatia describe their sense of lost community, memories of those left behind, recollections of town squares that no longer exist, and homes now occupied by neighbors. The editors of "The Suitcase", themselves representing the diverse people of the region, traveled to camps and temporary homes across the globe to collect these stories. An antidote to apathy, this work moves beyond and outside the vicissitudes of daily politics to portray the human tragedy at the center of present-day Bosnia and Croatia.
Probing the intimate losses of countless individuals, it delivers a powerful indictment of injustice, militarism, prejudice, and warfare.
Julie Mertus was a Fulbright scholar, human rights activist, and Professor of Law in Bucharest, Romania. She is now Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at American University. Jasmina Tesanovic is a writer and publisher in Belgrade, Serbia. Habiba Metikos was a lawyer in Sarajevo; she now lives in Canada. Rada Boric is a Director of the Center for Women War Victims in Zagreb, Croatia. Cornel West is Professor of African American Studies at Harvard University and author of Race Matters (1993), among many other books.
