Overview
- 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.
- Series
- Contemporary Asia in the world
Contemporary Asia in the world. - Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
- Locale
- Korea (North)
Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- External Link
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Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by ProQuest
- ISBN
- 9780231171342
023117134X - Additional Form
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Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
- Physical Description
- xii, 252 pages ; 22 cm.
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Refugees--Korea (North)--Biography. Refugees--Korea (North)--Attitudes. Victims of famine--Korea (North) Famines--Korea (North) Human rights--Korea (North) Korea (North)--Social conditions. Resilience, Psychological. Starvation. Refugees. Communism. Social Conditions. Social Control, Formal. Interviews as Topic. Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Famines. Human rights. Refugees--Attitudes. Social conditions. Victims of famine. Korea (North) Biographies.
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