01575 a2200265 4500 95306 95306 BJBSDDR 20230410142423.0 ta 170119b2018 ny ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781940953847 spa BJBSDDR eng R E 169 U27a 2018 917.304929 Ugresic, Dubravka 1949- American Fictionary / Dubravka Ugresic, Traslated from the croatian by Celian Hawkesworth and Ellen Elias-Bursac New York : Open Letter , 2018 209 p. : 22 cm In the midst of the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s, Dubravka Ugresic—winner of the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature—was invited to Middletown, Connecticut as a guest lecturer. A world away from the brutal sieges of Sarajevo and the nationalist rhetoric of Milošević, she instead has to cope with everyday life in America, where she's assaulted by "strong personalities," the cult of the body, endless amounts of jogging and exercise, bagels, and an obsession with public confession. Organized as a fictional dictionary, these early essays of Ugresic's (revised and amended for this edition) allow us to see American culture through the eyes of a woman whose country is being destroyed by war, and forces us to see through the comforting veil of Western consumerism. Estados Unidos 11542 Descripción y viajes. 384 Hawkesworth, Celian 385 Elias-Bursac, Ellen 1952- lcc BK dpf 0 0 0 0 REF BJB BJB REF 2019-01-17 0 R E 169 U27a 2018 00000130455 2019-01-17 00:00:00 1 2019-01-17 BK