- Gebundene Ausgabe: 238 Seiten
- Verlag: University of California Press (Januar 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0520204581
- ISBN-13: 978-0520204584
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 15,2 x 2,3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
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The Suitcase gathers testimonies from dozens of surviving victims from refugee camps and tenuous new homes in former Yugoslavia, Western Europe, Asia, and North America. They describe--in narratives, interviews, and poetry--their departures, sense of loss, daily lives as refugees, and hopes for and fears about their new lives. For some, family members in other countries were a lifeline; others escaped thanks to decent people (often strangers) of other ethnic backgrounds. Almost all miss their homes, their neighbors, and the multiethnic Yugoslavia. Some talk of the horrors of bombing and "strategic" rape; others, of the terror of flight into the unknown and the large and small miseries of exile. Because over 80 percent of the Balkan conflicts' refugees are women and children, the dominant voice is female. A Cornel West introduction and afterwords by Dubravka Ugresic, Marieme Helie-Lucas, Judith Mayotte, and coeditor Mertus supply global context for these eloquent personal stories. Mary Carroll
From Kirkus Reviews
A moving collection of writings that bring to life the personal tragedies behind the familiar image of refugees fleeing along the roads of Bosnia, their belongings held in a single suitcase or plastic bag. Poems, stories, and other narratives by men, women, and children who have been driven from their homes in Bosnia and Croatia have been gathered together in an attempt to communicate the raw reality of life as a refugee, ``the bad dream,'' as one says, ``that won't go away.'' Many entries are first-time efforts to put powerful emotions into words. Aside from relating the specifics of the horrendous ordeals these people have suffered, the writings forcefully convey the character and texture of these emotions. For instance, we hear repeatedly how songs from their homeland flood the refugees with memories of cafes and friends. Indeed, many speak of their homeland with the warmth and feeling usually reserved for individuals; Bosnia and various towns are mourned and glorified. The Suitcase lays special emphasis on the plight of women refugees, many of whom have been raped, almost all of whom have lost family. The majority of the pieces here are by women; several essays contributed by human rights activists set the experience of these refugees, many of whom are Muslims, within the larger contexts of Muslim women refugees elsewhere and the overall international refugee situation. One of the strongest and most haunting pieces is by the novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugresic, who addresses not women's issues per se but the universal feelings of exile. Summing up the agony shared by the often less eloquent refugees, Ugresic poignantly comments on the singular agony of civil war (enemies speaking the same language): ``And now I think I know that language is our punishment, a pledge of remembering and forgetting at the same time, a pledge of our eternal, painful, and exhausting relationship.'' (23 b&w photos, 1 map, not seen) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Who are refugees? People who fled the wars in Bosnia and Croatia are scattered in Missouri and Ontario, Germany and Austria, Israel and Pakistan, and they are displaced to other towns within their own countries. They are not voluntary emigrants whose bags are packed with hopes in search of a dream. They may be wealthy, or at least they may once have been. The refugee cleaning floors for minimum wage may have been a surgeon in her own life. The eight-year old girl may be the only one in her family who has learned English, so it is only she who can speak with government officials and store clerks. Refugees are anyone and everyone. They are professionals and farmers and little boys and criminals and poets, but mostly they are women and children and the elderly.
The Suitcase gives voice to the people "without context". They speak of their dreams and their losses. Their poems are here and sad scenes of small things washed away forever by tides of war. "War taught us a lot. How the fear makes people irrationally greedy. It is difficult to resist becoming greedy. It is almost like an instinct. To possess, to hold on to something. In shelters, to hold on to somebody. To hold on to your prayer, even if you never prayed before". Some refugees long only for the day when they can return to their hometowns to begin to reglue the shards of their old lives. Some can speak only of Bosnia's beauty or the pleasures of a cup of coffee with friends.
Others close and lock the door on the past with determination. "We arrived here safely. Everyone is fine. Please do not write us or try to contact us. We do not want to be reminded of anything", reads the postcard sent by a Bosnian family after they arrived in Canada in 1994.
The book is well-edited and well-organized along five broad themes. These are followed by three powerful afterwords, of which Dubravka Ugresic's is the strongest as she muses on the fact that the people of the Balkans are one people. Divided by the same language, they look alike, and yet "not one generation in the Balkans manages to escape war, in every family there is at least one killer and one killed, new life only begins on somebody else's dead head." There is one minor error (p.11, Vukovar was attacked in 1991, not 1992).
The Suitcase rings powerfully and true. The simple message here is that refugees are people, and the lives they lead are but a shot away for us all.
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Poignant and Powerful Voices of Refugees
11. März 1999
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Who are refugees? People who fled the wars in Bosnia and Croatia are scattered in Missouri and Ontario, Germany and Austria, Israel and Pakistan, and they are displaced to other towns within their own countries. They are not voluntary emigrants whose bags are packed with hopes in search of a dream. They may be wealthy, or at least they may once have been. The refugee cleaning floors for minimum wage may have been a surgeon in her own life. The eight-year old girl may be the only one in her family who has learned English, so it is only she who can speak with government officials and store clerks. Refugees are anyone and everyone. They are professionals and farmers and little boys and criminals and poets, but mostly they are women and children and the elderly.
The Suitcase gives voice to the people "without context". They speak of their dreams and their losses. Their poems are here and sad scenes of small things washed away forever by tides of war. "War taught us a lot. How the fear makes people irrationally greedy. It is difficult to resist becoming greedy. It is almost like an instinct. To possess, to hold on to something. In shelters, to hold on to somebody. To hold on to your prayer, even if you never prayed before". Some refugees long only for the day when they can return to their hometowns to begin to reglue the shards of their old lives. Some can speak only of Bosnia's beauty or the pleasures of a cup of coffee with friends.
Others close and lock the door on the past with determination. "We arrived here safely. Everyone is fine. Please do not write us or try to contact us. We do not want to be reminded of anything", reads the postcard sent by a Bosnian family after they arrived in Canada in 1994.
The book is well-edited and well-organized along five broad themes. These are followed by three powerful afterwords, of which Dubravka Ugresic's is the strongest as she muses on the fact that the people of the Balkans are one people. Divided by the same language, they look alike, and yet "not one generation in the Balkans manages to escape war, in every family there is at least one killer and one killed, new life only begins on somebody else's dead head." There is one minor error (p.11, Vukovar was attacked in 1991, not 1992).
The Suitcase rings powerfully and true. The simple message here is that refugees are people, and the lives they lead are but a shot away for us all.
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EXPERTLY EDITED AND BOTH A TRAGEDY AND DELIGHT TO READ
13. September 1997
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
The Suitcase is a wonderful and sorrowful journey into the hearts of an oppressed and victimized land. the personal stories are of those who, throughout history have had no voice. Any person with a sense of history will surely feel the magnitude of the plight of a refugee.
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Strong And Inspiring Stories By Strong And Inspiring People!!
19. August 2010
Format:Taschenbuch
I could not put this wonderful book down. These people needed to have their stories told, and this wonderful book make this possible. The way their stories were told, I not only learned a lot, but felt like I was traveling right along with this. A 5-star book, for sure.
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