Once upon a Yugoslavia : when the American way met Tito's third way : a personal journey / Surya Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Surya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yugoslavia--Description and travel.

Yugoslavia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Williamstown, Massachusetts : New Europe Books, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

History books have objectively described the former Yugoslavia, but Once Upon a Yugoslavia gives personalized look at the everyday lives of people in pre-1989 Eastern Europe that shows how the experience transformed one young woman's American Dream. Chronicling the sights, sounds, and ups and downs of the everyday Yugoslav existence, Green speaks to both the positive and negative aspects of the contemporary phenomenon known as "Yugo-nostalgia." The pros and cons of the American and Yugoslav societies fly to and fro during Surya's conversations with a host of colorful characters--some of whom she lodges with and travels the countryside with, others of whom she dates. In this strange Big Brotherish country of perplexing language, culture, and customs--which gives Surya an early experience of living a monitored life without privacy in a land where paranoia is contagious--more than once readers will hear her sobbing at night. -- Amazon.com.

Contents:

Venturing Out of the Comfort Zone

Entering a Gray Existence

Remembering the Backstory

Living Like the Locals

Getting to Know Zagreb Film

Comparing Lifestyles

Exercising a New Simplicity

Stretching Mind's Boundaries

Detaching from Conditioning

Seesawing between Emotions

Missing Freedom

Assisting Film Trailblazer John Grierson

Knowing Which Questions to Ask

Carrying Our Self-Examination

Glimpsing the Larger Perspective

Experiencing the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia from Afar

Learning from Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

Seeing with New Eyes

Becoming Wise in the Workplace

Crossing Borders

Embracing the Positive within the Negative

Going-from-Slave-ia

Rounding Out Yugo-Nostalgically

Summing Up in the Now and Looking Ahead.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780990004356

099000435X

OCLC:

1298387838