How we survived communism even laughed

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This essay collection from renowned journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, which quickly became a modern (and feminist) classic, draws back the Iron Curtain for a glimpse at the lives of Eastern European women under Communist regimes. Provocative, often witty, and always intensely personal, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed cracks open a paradoxical world that through its rejection of capitalism and commoditization ends up fetishizing both.

Examining the relationship between material goods and expressions of happiness and individuality in a society where even bananas were an alien luxury, Drakulic homes in on the eradication of female identity, drawing on her own experiences as well as broader cultural observations. Enforced communal housing that allowed for little privacy, the banishment of many time-saving devices, and a focus on manual labor left no room for such bourgeois affectations as cosmetics or clothes, but Drakulic's remarkable exploration of the reality behind the rhetoric reveals that women still went to desperate lengths to feel 'feminine.'

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed also chronicles the lingering consequences of such regimes. The Berlin Wall may have fallen, but Drakulic's power pieces testify that ideology cannot be dismantled so quickly; a lifetime lived in fear cannot be so easily forgotten.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 juni 2016

Aantal pagina's: 224

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Slavenka Drakulic

Hoofduitgeverij: MORR

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 140 mm

Product hoogte: 13 mm

Product lengte: 197 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 134 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 16 mm

Verpakking lengte: 201 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 358 g

EAN: 9780060975401

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