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Title

How they see us : meditations on America / edited by James Atlas.

Publication

New York, NY : Atlas ; London : Turnaround [distributor], c2010.

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Additional Authors

Atlas, James

Description

274 p.; 19 cm.

Summary

In this collection of essays, novelists and other writers from around the world share their perceptions of the United States.

Subject

• Popular culture > United States
• United States > Social conditions
• United States > Foreign relations
• United States > Foreign public opinion

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / James Atlas -- Rift / Luís Fernando Veríssimo (Brazil) ; translated by Janet Min Lee -- How I see America as an Iraqi-Canadian / Leilah Nadir (Canada) -- Stranger among them / Alberto Fuguet (Chile) -- Double life / Da Chen (China) -- Message / Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada (Cuba) ; translated by Kristina Cordero -- Lesson for America / Andrei Makine (France) -- It can only get better / Werner Sonne (Germany) -- Truth about America / György Dragomań (Hungary) -- In praise of the delinquent hero, or how Hollywood creates terrorists / Sunny Singh (India) -- Dreams of a revolution baby / Zarah Ghahramani (Iran) -- Land of the long submarine sandwich / Tom Segev (Israel) -- Returning from exile / Gianni Riotta (Italy) -- Marilyn Monroe's panties / Carmen Boullosa (Mexico) -- Dear America / Abdelkader Banali (Morocco/the Netherlands) -- American empire: a libretto in eight movements / Chris Abani (Nigeria) -- FlagGing multiculturalism : how American insularity morally justifies itself / Uzma Aslam Khan (Pakistan) -- Giving the harness bells a shake / Mourid Brghouti (Palestine) -- Wild-blooded envoys of the future / Victor Erofeyev (Russia) -- Good monkey / Imraan Coovadia (South Africa) -- Fiddlers and failures / Terry Eaglton (United Kingdom) -- United States and Latin America : inevitable nostalgia / Gernando Báez ; translated by Kristin Cordero (Venezuela).

ISBN

• 9781934633106 (pbk.)
• 1934633100 (pbk.)

OCLC

444437105

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library