LEADER 03402oam 22005654a 450 001 9910247445503321 005 20241204164929.0 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0137.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000001283602 035 $a(OAPEN)1004607 035 $a(OCoLC)1176454954 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87141 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35933 035 $a(oapen)doab35933 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001283602 100 $a20200721e20202016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBroken Records$fSnez?ana Z?abic? 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2016 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2020 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (172 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: 0615949460 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aYugoslavs$zIllinois$zChicago$vBiography 606 $aPopular culture$zCroatia$zVukovar 606 $aRefugees$zYugoslavia$vBiography 606 $aTeenage refugees$zYugoslavia$vBiography 606 $aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$vPersonal narratives 606 $aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xYouth 606 $aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xRefugees$vBiography 615 0$aYugoslavs 615 0$aPopular culture 615 0$aRefugees 615 0$aTeenage refugees 615 0$aYugoslav War, 1991-1995 615 0$aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xYouth. 615 0$aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xRefugees 676 $a949.7203 700 $aZ?abic?$b Snez?ana$f1974-$0984394 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910247445503321 996 $aBroken Records$92248536 997 $aUNINA