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Title How they see us : meditations on America / edited by James Atlas.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Atlas, [2010]
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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  808 HOW    Check Shelf
Description 274 pages ; 18 cm
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) ; translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan -- 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 Eagleton (United Kingdom) -- United States and Latin America : inevitable nostalgia / Gernando Báez ; translated by Kristin Cordero (Venezuela).
Summary In this collection of essays, novelists and other writers from around the world share their perceptions of the United States.
Subject Popular culture -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions.
United States -- Foreign relations.
United States -- Foreign public opinion.
Added Author Atlas, James.
ISBN 9781934633106 paperback
1934633100 paperback
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