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Marching Through Suffering : Loss and Survival in North Korea / Sandra Fahy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Asia in the WorldPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231171342
  • 9780231538947
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.93050922 F158m 23
LOC classification:
  • HV640.5.K67 .F35 2015
  • HV640.5.K67 .F35 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Note on Translation, Confidentiality, Terms, and Romanization -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Loss and Survival -- 1. The Busy Years -- 2. Cohesion and Disintegration -- 3. The Life of Words -- 4. Life Leaves Death Behind -- 5. Breaking Points -- 6. The New Division -- Conclusion: Is Past Prologue? -- Appendix: A Short History of the North Korean Famine -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime.These oral testimonies show how ordinary North Koreans, from farmers and soldiers to students and diplomats, framed the mounting struggles and deaths surrounding them as the famine progressed. Following the development of the disaster, North Koreans deployed complex discursive strategies to rationalize the horror and hardship in their lives, practices that maintained citizens' loyalty to the regime during the famine and continue to sustain its rule today. Casting North Koreans as a diverse people with a vast capacity for adaptation rather than as a monolithic entity passively enduring oppression, Marching Through Suffering positions personal history as key to the interpretation of political violence.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Note on Translation, Confidentiality, Terms, and Romanization -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Loss and Survival -- 1. The Busy Years -- 2. Cohesion and Disintegration -- 3. The Life of Words -- 4. Life Leaves Death Behind -- 5. Breaking Points -- 6. The New Division -- Conclusion: Is Past Prologue? -- Appendix: A Short History of the North Korean Famine -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime.These oral testimonies show how ordinary North Koreans, from farmers and soldiers to students and diplomats, framed the mounting struggles and deaths surrounding them as the famine progressed. Following the development of the disaster, North Koreans deployed complex discursive strategies to rationalize the horror and hardship in their lives, practices that maintained citizens' loyalty to the regime during the famine and continue to sustain its rule today. Casting North Koreans as a diverse people with a vast capacity for adaptation rather than as a monolithic entity passively enduring oppression, Marching Through Suffering positions personal history as key to the interpretation of political violence.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)