Karaoke Culture

Dubravka Ugresic

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Finalist:National Book Critics Circle Award -Criticism (2011)

Finalist for the NBCC Award in Criticism, this collection is riotous, especially the piece about smashing a minibar.

Book Details

Publisher: Open Letter
Publish Date: Oct 23rd, 2011
Pages: 324
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 1.00in - 1.15lb
EAN: 9781934824573
Categories: • Essays• Popular Culture

About the Author

Dubravka Ugresic is the author of several works of fiction and several essay collections, including the NBCC award finalist, Karaoke Culture. She went into exile from Croatia after being label a "witch" for her anti-nationalistic stance during the Yugoslav war. She now resides in the Netherlands.

David Williams did his doctoral research on the post-Yugoslav writings of Dubravka Ugresic and the idea of a "literature of the Eastern European ruins." He is the author of Writing Postcommunism.

Praise for this book

"Ugresic never commits a sloppy thought or a turgid sentence. Under her gaze, the tiredest topics of the "tired" continent (migration, multiculturalism, "new Europe") spring to life."--The Independent (UK)

"Dubravka Ugresic is the philosopher of evil and exile, and the story-teller of many shattered lives the wars in the former Yugoslavia produced."--Charles Simic