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All Wars Are Fought Twice

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Refugee Stories Are War Stories as Much as Soldiers

Stories are not either or, but both an and. We have to transform society so that more people have the opportunity to tell their stories. A happy forgetting would be achieved when we've abolished the conditions of voicelessness. I think again back to beloved and tony morrison, and the final refrain in beloved, as a novel, talks about slavery. But also, this is not a story that we can avoid or ignore. And so that paradox that she identify is true here as well. For us as individuals, it involves trying to figure out some programme of justice to achieve that equilibrium of happy forgetting. That was also goal of viette's book, nothing ever dies.

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