// War Literature

For my research paper, I will focus on the Bosnian war and how it affected the lives of women living during that time. I will mainly focus on rape and the hardships that these women had to go through. My essay will derive from the book S.: A Novel about the Balkans by Slavenka Draculic that we read in class as well as another central book or movie, which I have not decided on yet and 3 scholarly articles.

In my essay, I will aim to expose all the cruelties that women went through during the Bosnian war. It will center around innocent civilian women who was dragged into the face of war, not to fight, but rather for men to humiliate them. I will talk about how these women were dragged into the situation and help us to really see and understand how this changed their lives completely. Also, I will include specific examples from individuals and everything that they went through as well as the camps in which they were kept in.

Bibliography

“Weapon Of War.” New Internationalist. 3 June 1993. Web. 29 Nov. 2010. <http://www.newint.org/features/1993/06/05/rape/>.

Gutman, Roy. “Mass Rape of Bosnian Muslim Women « How Bosnian and Balkan Wars Started Facts Timeline History Crimes.” How Bosnian and Balkan Wars Started Facts Timeline History Crimes. 19 Apr. 1993. Web. 29 Nov. 2010. <http://thebosnianwarfactstimelinehistorygenocidecriminals.wordpress.com/2006/11/30/mass-rape-of-bosnian-muslim-women/>.

Olujic, Maria B. “Women, Rape, and War: The Continued Trauma of Refugees and Displaced Persons in Croatia.” Anthropology of East Europe Review. 24 Dec. 1996. Web. 29 Nov. 2010. <http://condor.depaul.edu/~rrotenbe/aeer/aeer13_1/Olujic.html>.

Drakulic, Slavenka. S.: A Novel about the Balkans. 1st ed. United States of America: Penguin Group USA, 2001. Print.