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Marching through suffering
2015
Overview
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 Sufferingpositions personal history as key to the interpretation of political violence.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Subject
Asian History, East Asian Studies, Human Rights
/ Famines
/ HISTORY
/ Human rights -- Korea (North)
/ Korea (North) -- Social conditions
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian
/ Refugees
/ Refugees -- Korea (North) -- Attitudes
ISBN
9780231171342, 023117134X, 9780231538947, 0231538944
