A good read from historian Natalie Zemon Davis: "This episode also expanded my notions of human response to situations of constraint, both my own and that of people in the past. I realized that between heroic resistance to and fatalistic acceptance of oppression, there was ample space for coping strategies and creative improvisation. Much of human life was and is carried on in this fertile middle ground... We can take heart from the fact that no matter how dire the situation, some will find means to resist, some will find means to cope, and some will remember and tell stories about what happened." nybooks/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jul/30/fbi-turned-me-on-to-rare-books/
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 06:05:48 +0000
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