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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820333603321

Autore

Simić Olivera

Titolo

Surviving peace : a political memoir / / Simić, Olivera ; cover design, Deb Snibson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Melbourne, Australia : , : Spinifex, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-74219-891-0

1-74219-889-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

362.87

Soggetti

Refugees

Peacekeeping forces - Bosnia and Hercegovina

Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) History Siege, 1992-1996 Personal narratives

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover ; About the Author ; Title Page ; Copyright; Epigraph ; Contents; Acknowledgements; Map A Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY); Map B Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH); Preface The Past Lives On; Chapter One Journeying Through War and Peace; Chapter Two Traitor or Truth Seeker?; Moral Responsibility; The Masculinity of War; Truth Seekers; Paying a High Price; How to Face the Past?; Chapter Three Moving From War to Peace; The NATO Bombings; Life as a Refugee; Building Peace; Where Are You From?; Chapter Four The Past is the Present; Chapter Five Victims and Survivors

From One Disaster to AnotherFacing the Past Begins; Chapter Six Between Remembering and Forgetting;  Minefields; Conflicting War Memories; Epilogue Troubled Homeland; Appendix Timeline of Yugoslavia's Disintegration; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Other Books from Spinifex Press ; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

<div>How do you pick up the pieces after your life is shattered by war? How do you continue living when your country no longer exists, your language is no longer spoken and your family is divided, not just by distance but by politics too? What happens when your old identity is



taken from you and a new one imposed, one that you never asked for? When Olivera Simic was seven years old, President Tito died. Old divisions re-emerged as bitter ethnic conflicts unfolded. War arrived in 1992. People were no longer Yugoslavs but Serbs, Croatians, Bosnians. Old friends became enemies overnight. In this