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Author Fahy, Sandra, author.

Title Marching through suffering : loss and survival in North Korea / Sandra Fahy.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Contemporary Asia in the World
Contemporary Asia in the world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
Contents Note on Translation, Confidentiality, Terms, and Romanization -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Loss and Survival -- 1. Busy Years -- 2. Cohesion and Disintegration -- 3. Life of Words -- 4. Life Leaves Death Behind -- 5. Breaking Points -- 6. 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."--Publisher's description.
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Subject Refugees -- Korea (North) -- Biography.
Refugees.
Korea (North)
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Refugees -- Korea (North) -- Attitudes.
Victims of famine -- Korea (North)
Victims of famine.
Famines -- Korea (North)
Famines.
Human rights -- Korea (North)
Human rights.
Korea (North) -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Resilience, Psychological.
Starvation.
Refugees.
Communism.
Social Conditions.
Social Control, Formal.
Interviews as Topic.
Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Subject Human rights.
Other Form: Print version: Fahy, Sandra. Marching through suffering. New York : Columbia University Press, [2015] 9780231171342 (DLC) 2014020106 (OCoLC)890107139
ISBN 9780231538947 (electronic book)
0231538944 (electronic book)
9780231171342