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For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed,
(re)constructed and (re)negotiated daily. Forced displacement
radically reshapes identity, with results ranging from successful
hybridization to feelings of permanent misplacement. This
compelling and intimate description of places of pain and
(be)longing that were lost during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, as well as of survivors' places of resettlement in
Australia, Europe and North America, serves as a powerful
illustration of the complex interplay between place, memory and
identity. It is even more the case when those places have been
vandalized, divided up, brutalized and scarred. However, as the
author shows, these places of humiliation and suffering are also
places of desire, with displaced survivors emulating their former
homes in the far corners of the globe where they have resettled.
For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed,
(re)constructed and (re)negotiated daily. Forced displacement
radically reshapes identity, with results ranging from successful
hybridization to feelings of permanent misplacement. This
compelling and intimate description of places of pain and
(be)longing that were lost during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, as well as of survivors' places of resettlement in
Australia, Europe and North America, serves as a powerful
illustration of the complex interplay between place, memory and
identity. It is even more the case when those places have been
vandalized, divided up, brutalized and scarred. However, as the
author shows, these places of humiliation and suffering are also
places of desire, with displaced survivors emulating their former
homes in the far corners of the globe where they have resettled.
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