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A Muslim Woman in Tito's Yugoslavia (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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A Muslim Woman in Tito's Yugoslavia (Hardcover, 1st ed)
Series: Eastern European Studies
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Born in a small river town in the largely Muslim province of
Sandzak, Munevera Hadzisehovic grew up in an area sandwiched
between the Orthdox Christian regions of Montenegro and Serbia, cut
off from other Muslims in Bosnia and Harzegovina. Her story takes
her reader from the rural culture of the early 1930s through the
massacres of World War II and the repression of the early Communist
regime to the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. It
sheds light on the history of Yugoslavia from the interwar Kingdom
to the breakup of the socialist state. In poignant detail,
Hadzisehovic paints a picture not only of her own life but of the
lives of other Muslims, especially women, in an era and an area of
great change. Readers are given a loving yet accurate portrait of
Muslim customs pertaining to the household, gardens, food and
dating--in short, of everyday life. Hadzisehovic writes from the
inside out, starting with her emotions and experiences, then moving
outward to the facts that concern those interested in this region:
the role of the Ustashe, Chetniks, and Germans in World War II, the
attitude of Serbdominated Yugoslavia toward Muslims, and the tragic
state of ethnic relations that led to war again in the 1990s. Some
of Hadzisehovic's experiences and many of her views will be
controversial. She speaks of Muslim women's reluctance to give up
the veil, the disapproval of mixed marriages, and the problems
between Serb and Croat nationalists. Her benign view of Italian
occupation is in stark contrast to her depiction of bloodthirsty
Chetnik irregulars. Her analysis of Belgrade's Muslims suggests
that class differences were just as important as religious
affiliation. In this personal,yet universal story, Hazisehovic
mourns the loss of two worlds--the orderly Muslim world of her
childhood and the secular, multi-ethnic world of communist
Yugoslavia.
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