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Arts & Literature: The Many Faces Of Hope, Fiza Lee-Winter
Arts & Literature: The Many Faces Of Hope, Fiza Lee-Winter
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
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Responding To Purdeková, Simon Turner
Responding To Purdeková, Simon Turner
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
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Framing Violence: The Hidden Suffering And Healing Of Sudan's 'Lost Girls' In Cairo, Egypt, Ginger Ann Johnson
Framing Violence: The Hidden Suffering And Healing Of Sudan's 'Lost Girls' In Cairo, Egypt, Ginger Ann Johnson
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation examines the specific forms of embodied suffering war and its refugee aftermath brings to female Sudanese refugees currently living in post-revolution Cairo, Egypt in order to illustrate the suffering and healing enacted within everyday life. These women, displaced from the Second Sudanese Civil War, are what I label Sudan's `Lost Girls.' The theoretical framework I employ in order to discuss their lives is a critical medical anthropology perspective based on the mindful body. I engage anthropological literature on the body in order to better understand the embodied suffering, sexual violence, and refugee aftermath of war. My research seeks …