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Surviving Peace: A Political Memoir
Simic Olivera
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Description for Surviving Peace: A Political Memoir
Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BGA; JFF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 260.
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 Simić 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, Bosniaks. Old friends became enemies ... Read more
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 Simić 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, Bosniaks. Old friends became enemies ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Spinifex Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
, Australia
ISBN
9781742198941
SKU
V9781742198941
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About Simic Olivera
Olivera Simić is a feminist, human rights activist and academic at the Griffith Law School, Australia. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Dr Simić has lived and studied in Eastern and Western Europe, the USA and South America. She has published one monograph and three co-edited collections, book chapters, journal articles and personal narratives. She completed a Doctorate of Law at ... Read more
Reviews for Surviving Peace: A Political Memoir
"Reading Surviving Peace made me pause. Sometimes it was a page that made me stop to think, to picture, to wonder. Sometimes it was just a graphic phrase. Olivera Simić has been there: the 'there' of denying the dissolution of one's national identity, the 'there' of struggling against militarism's enticements, the 'there' of making honest postwar sense of the insensible. ... Read more