Research Catalog

Title

Why Bosnia? : writings on the Balkan war / edited by Rabia Ali & Lawrence Lifschultz.

Publication

Stony Creek, Conn. : Pamphleteer's Press, ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ali, Rabia.
• Lifschultz, Lawrence.

Description

lv, 353 pages : maps; 24 cm

Subjects

• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Since 1991
• Yugoslav War > (1991-1995)
• History
• Bosnien-Herzegowina > Bürgerkrieg
• Bosnia and Herzegovina > History > 1992-
• Yugoslav wars (1989-2001)
• Bosnienkrieg
• Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 > Bosnia and Herzegovina

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

A text about the land / Mak Dizdar -- pt. 1. The sorrow of parting with Sarajevo / Nerkesi Muhammed. Appointment in Sarajeva : why Bosnia matters / Christopher Hitchens. Letter from Sarajevo : is there a future? / Kemal Kurspahić. On your knees with the dying / David Rieff. Return / Francis R. Jones. An ode for Sarajevo / Mehmet Melli -- pt. 2. Today there are none who wish to die / author unknown. Remain here / Aleksa Santić. Serbia's blood war / T.D. Allman. Translations from Mak Dizdar : sleepers under the stone / Francis R. Jones. Culture under fire / Smail Balić. Winter idyll / Mirko Kovač. Is this not genocide? / Ibrahim Kajan. The harsh song of the circular saw / Balázs Attila. The road to Manjača / Orhan Bosnević. Bloody morning / Džemaludin Latić. Women hide behind a wall of silence / Slavenka Draculić. Extract from a Sufi chronicle of 2092 : the land of inexhaustible inspiration / Enes Karić. On nationalism / Danilo Kiš. The seventh day : The book of Genesis / Mak Dizdar -- pt. 3. Letter of Stjepan Tomašević, the last king of Bosnia. Inscription on the bridge over River Drina. Separating history from myth : an interview with Ivo Banac. The final solution of Bosnia-Hercegovina / Mark Thompson. A question of international solidarity / Thomas Harrison. The Western response to the war in Bosnia : a house built on sand / Marko Prelec. The degradation of the Bosnian peace negotiations / Kasim Trnka. How not to divide the indivisible / Stjepko Golubic, Susan Campbell, & Thomas Golubic. Caught in another's dream in Bosnia / Slavoj Zižek. The Blue River / Mak Dizdar -- pt. 4. An autobiographical text of a Jewish prosaist. Gorčin / Mak Dizdar. The destruction of Bosnia-Hercegovina / Branka Magaš. Letter from Serbia : "Greater Serbia" and its discontents / Stojan Cerović. The roots of Yugoslavia's dissolution / Mihailo Crnobrnja. Things fall apart / Jelena Lovrić. A personal report : the last days of Yugoslavia / Bogdan Denitch -- Regional polarization in postwar Yugoslavia and the impact of regional policies / Iraj Hashi. The Albanians of Kosovo : self-determination through non-violence / Shkelzen Maliqi -- Bosnia tune / Joseph Brodsky.

ISBN

• 0963058797
• 9780963058799
• 0963058789
• 9780963058782

LCCN

94159727

OCLC

• ocm29494831
• 29494831
• SCSB-2023642

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library