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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455578303321

Autore

Potočnjak Dragica <1958->

Titolo

Alisa, Alice [[electronic resource] /] / a play by Dragica Potocnjak; translated and with an introduction by Leslie Anne Wade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK ; ; Portland, OR, : Intellect, 2003

ISBN

1-280-47685-0

9786610476855

1-84150-886-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (90 p.)

Disciplina

305.89274056

Soggetti

Croatian drama

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 - Refugees - Bosnia and Hercegovina

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 - Women - Bosnia and Hercegovina

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Pages; Author's Preface; Alisa, Alice; Translator's Afterword; Endnotes

Sommario/riassunto

Alisa, Alice' is a humanely cruel and deeply moving drama, full of passion and desire. The clash of two cultures - two worlds - is described with psychological accuracy and depth. Alisa, a young Muslim refugee scarred by the Balkan war finds shelter with Magda, a representative of the common so-called civilised but self-destructive and self-loving western world. Magda, through the sadism arising from her despair and loss of purpose, her psychological confusion, causes the suicide of Alisa. Their relationship permeated as much with love as with hatred, is decanted through the dictatorship of la