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Karaoke culture / Dubravka Ugrešić ; translated from the Croatian and with an afterword by David Williams ; translation contributions from Ellen Elias-Bursać and Celia Hawkesworth.

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Karaoke culture / Dubravka Ugrešić ; translated from the Croatian and with an afterword by David Williams ; translation contributions from Ellen Elias-Bursać and Celia Hawkesworth.
Author
Ugrešić, Dubravka
Publication
Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Williams, David, 1976-
  • Elias-Bursać, Ellen.
  • Hawkesworth, Celia, 1942-
Description
324 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
"Over the past three decades, Dubravka Ugrešić has established herself as one of Europe's greatest-- and most entertaining-- thinkers and creators, and it's in her essays that Ugrešić is at her sharpest. With laser focus, she pierces our pop culture, dissecting the absurdity of daily life with a wit and style that's all her own. Whether it's commentary on jaded youth, the ways technology has made us soft in the head, or how wrestling a hotel minibar into a bathtub is the best way to stick it to The Man, Ugresic writes with unmatched honesty and panache."--Back cover.
Uniform Title
Napad na minibar. English
Alternative Title
Napad na minibar.
Subject
  • Croatian essays
  • Popular culture > Croatia
  • Popular culture > Europe, Eastern
  • Post-communism > Croatia
  • Post-communism > Europe, Eastern
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Karaoke culture -- My digital life -- Cans of tuna fish and the European classics -- Captain, sir, we have plenty of coffee! -- No place for sissies -- The consolation of the last resource -- My ear the chauvinist, my eye the misanthrope -- Fear of people -- Filipinas -- Serbian Hollywood -- Bitches -- Knowledge is power -- The hairdresser with the poodle -- A postcard from Bali -- Battle royale -- Assault on the minibar -- No country for old women -- Old men and their grandchildren -- A question of perspective -- The fly -- Dangerous liaisons -- The spirit of the Kakanian Province -- The elusive substance of the archive.
ISBN
  • 9781934824573 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 1934824577 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
^^2011020021
OCLC
  • 768305640
  • SCSB-10751545
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library