Kolanović Maša: Underground Barbie

Name: Underground Barbie
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Author: Kolanović Maša

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Author: Kolanović Maša
Publisher: Sandorf
Availability: Available
Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 77051

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Underground Barbie

Kolanović Maša

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Maša Kolanović: Underground Barbie

"[R]emarkably . . . In the early 1990s, [Dubravka] Ugrešić and several Croatian female intellectuals provoked the anger of many of their male colleagues by criticizing extreme nationalists and drawing public attention to the gendered nature of war. . . Kolanović's novel does something comparable, but with unprecedented humor and lightness of touch." The Guardian

As the frequency of air raid sirens sending apartment dwellers into the basement increases, neighborhood children block out reality with the toys at hand - some imported from Western Europe and North America, others regional copies or questionably improvised. Maša Kolanović's Underground Barbie brilliantly captures the whims of childhood as innocence gives way to the horrors of the news and the intrigues of sexual curiosity. The idealized glamor of Barbie and Ken on an endless honeymoon turns into fictional scenarios that reflect the fractured social fabric brought about by the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s: politicians campaign to define what it means to be a "real" Croat, a refugee ball with "disgusting" dolls that are less than "real" Barbie products, the discovery of a mass grave filled with headless corpses believed to be Ken's lovers.

Underground Barbie skilfully shows how the power of imagination is used to overcome difficulties, with a sharp critique of consumer culture, which is even sharper compared to the ruined background of the great socialist experiment.

The book is written in English

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