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How they see us : meditations on America
Title
How they see us : meditations on America / edited by James Atlas.
ISBN
9781934633106 (pbk.)
1934633100 (pbk.)
Published
New York, NY : Atlas ; London : Turnaround [distributor], c2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Summary
In this collection of essays, novelists and other writers from around the world share their perceptions of the United States.
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Internet Archive collection.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
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).
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