Karaoke Culture
by Ugresic, Dubravka; Williams, David; Elias-Bursac, Ellen (CON); Hawkesworth, Celia (CON)Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-10-25
Publisher(s): Open Letter
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Summary
Over the past three decades, Dubravka Ugresic has established herself as one of Europe's greatest-and most entertaining-thinkers and creators, and it's in her essays that Ugresic 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.
Table of Contents
| Karaoke Culture | p. 1 |
| Buy The Jellyfish That Stung You | p. 105 |
| My Digital Life | p. 107 |
| Cans of Tuna Fish and the European Classics | p. 110 |
| Captain, Sir, We Have Plenty of Coffee! | p. 114 |
| No Place for Sissies | p. 119 |
| The Consolation of the Last Resource | p. 124 |
| My Ear the Chauvinist, My Eye the Misanthrope | p. 128 |
| Fear of People | p. 134 |
| Filipinas | p. 139 |
| Serbian Hollywood | p. 144 |
| Bitches | p. 149 |
| Knowledge Is Power | p. 155 |
| The Hairdresser with the Poodle | p. 160 |
| A Postcard from Bali | p. 165 |
| Battle Royale | p. 170 |
| Assault on the Minibar | p. 177 |
| Without Anesthesia | p. 183 |
| No Country for Old Women | p. 5 |
| Old Men and Their Grandchildren | p. 192 |
| A Question of Perspective | p. 203 |
| The Cookie That Made A Frenchman Famous | p. 247 |
| The Fly | p. 249 |
| Dangerous Liaisons | p. 266 |
| The Spirit of the Kakanian Province | p. 275 |
| The Elusive Substance ofthe Archive | p. 299 |
| Afterword | p. 315 |
| A Postcard from Berlin- by David Williams | p. 317 |
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