03402oam 22005654a 450 991024744550332120241204164929.010.21983/P3.0137.1.00(CKB)4100000001283602(OAPEN)1004607(OCoLC)1176454954(MdBmJHUP)muse87141(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35933(oapen)doab35933(EXLCZ)99410000000128360220200721e20202016 uy 0engurmu#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBroken RecordsSnežana ŽabićBrooklyn, NYpunctum books2016Baltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2020©20201 online resource (172 pages) illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)Print version: 0615949460 In 1991, Snezana Zabic lost her homeland and most of her family's book and record collection during the Yugoslav Wars that had been sparked by Slobodan Milosevic's relentless pursuit of power. She became a teenage refugee, forced to flee Croatia and the atrocities of war that had leveled her hometown of Vukovar. She and her family remained refugees in Serbia until NATO bombed Belgrade in 1999. After witnessing the first nights of NATO's bombing, Zabic took flight again. She moved from country to country, city to city, finally settling in Chicago. She realized -- reluctantly, because she didn't want to relive the past -- that she had to write about what had happened, what she had left behind, and what she had lost. Broken Records is the story of this loss, told with unflinching honesty, free of sentimentality or sensationalism. For the very first time, we learn how it felt to be first a regular teenager during the breakup of Yugoslavia and the ensuing wars, and then a 30-something adult, perennially troubled by one's uprooted existence. Broken Records is not a neat narrative but a bit of everything -- part bildungsroman, part memoir, part political poetry, part personal pop culture compendium. And while Zabic represents a Yugoslav diasporan subject, her book also belongs to an international generation whose formative years straddle the Cold War and the global reconfiguration of wealth and power, whose lives were spent shifting from the vinyl/analog era to the cyber/digital era. This generation knows that when they were told about history ending, they were told a lie.YugoslavsIllinoisChicagoBiographyPopular cultureCroatiaVukovarRefugeesYugoslaviaBiographyTeenage refugeesYugoslaviaBiographyYugoslav War, 1991-1995Personal narrativesYugoslav War, 1991-1995YouthYugoslav War, 1991-1995RefugeesBiographyYugoslavsPopular cultureRefugeesTeenage refugeesYugoslav War, 1991-1995Yugoslav War, 1991-1995Youth.Yugoslav War, 1991-1995Refugees949.7203Žabić Snežana1974-984394MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910247445503321Broken Records2248536UNINA