How they see us
Subtitle: meditations on America
By: edited by James Atlas
Publisher: Atlas
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781934633106
Subjects: Foreign public opinion; Public opinion; Social conditions; Diplomatic relations; Popular culture; Foreign relations
Description: In this collection of essays, novelists and other writers from around the world share their perceptions of the United States.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- James Atlas; title: Rift  -- Lui s Fernando Veri ssimo -- (Brazil) ; translated by Janet Min Lee; title: How I see America as an Iraqi-Canadian  -- Leilah Nadir -- (Canada); title: Stranger among them  -- Alberto Fuguet -- (Chile); title: Double life  -- Da Chen -- (China); title: Message  -- Ricardo Alarco n de Quesada -- (Cuba) ; translated by Kristina Cordero; title: Lesson for America  -- Andrei Makine -- (France); title: It can only get better  -- Werner Sonne -- (Germany); title: Truth about America  -- Gyo rgy Dragoman -- (Hungary); title: In praise of the delinquent hero, or how Hollywood creates terrorists  -- Sunny Singh -- (India); title: Dreams of a revolution baby  -- Zarah Ghahramani -- (Iran); title: Land of the long submarine sandwich  -- Tom Segev -- (Israel); title: Returning from exile  -- Gianni Riotta -- (Italy); title: Marilyn Monroe's panties  -- Carmen Boullosa -- (Mexico); title: Dear America  -- Abdelkader Banali -- (Morocco/the Netherlands); title: American empire: a libretto in eight movements  -- Chris Abani -- (Nigeria); title: Flagging multiculturalism : how American insularity morally justifies itself  -- Uzma Aslam Khan -- (Pakistan); title: Giving the harness bells a shake  -- Mourid Brghouti -- (Palestine); title: Wild-blooded envoys of the future  -- Victor Erofeyev -- (Russia); title: Good monkey  -- Imraan Coovadia -- (South Africa); title: Fiddlers and failures  -- Terry Eagleton -- (United Kingdom); title: United States and Latin America : inevitable nostalgia -- Fernando Ba ez ; translated by Kristin Cordero-- (Venezuela).