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Living Cells
S. is a woman of many faces: a loving wife and caring mother, a daughter, sister, and granddaughter, a friend to some and an adversary , even an enemy, to others. The aggressors who hold her captive for months in occupied Vukovar consider her only a receptacle in which to satisfy their lust and "raise their morale" until the final, bloody capitulation of the city. Who is S., really? "Busic has written a beautifully crafted novel about the neglected Croatian "comfort women" of Vukovar and transformed their suffering into a tale of strength and redemption." Janine Bertram Kemp, former Special Assistant to the Chairman, EEOC. "In "Living Cells", Busic examines the issue of power, force, and rape, truth and lies, the parallel presence of several realities: war, post-war, and peace, but above all, the moral decline of our own civilization." Sanja Knezevic, University of Zadar, Croatia
Lovers and Madmen
LOVERS AND MADMEN: A TRUE STORY OF PASSION, POLITICS, AND AIR PIRACY is dominated by two central themes: politics and love. Julienne Busic's memoirs take the reader through the events that shaped her life with Croatian dissident husband, Zvonko-assassination attempts, threats from the Yugoslav secret police, flights from country to country, enforced poverty and deprivation-and characterize the love that led to the greatest sacrifice of all: a sentence of life in prison for the political hijacking of a TWA jet. Less than twenty years after the Busics' desperate act, Yugoslavia broke apart in a spasm of war, and Croatia is now an independent state. The message contained in the leaflets thrown ...
Zagreb, Exit South
"Take a ride through the fog that is the new Zagreb and meet the people who struggle to make sense of themselves and their city. Be guided by the sound of a musical lighter as Baba wanders the streets in search of his beloved domestic beer and an excuse not to go home. Vera states at her computer screen, finding that email is cheaper than therapy, that the past should stay in the past, and that radical ex-boyfriends get old, too. Baba, Vera, and their friends and enemies (sometimes one and the same) discover that sex, drugs, alcohol, and conversation may not be the keys to salvation, but they can be essential survival gear in a country redefining itself."--BOOK JACKET.
Tvoja krv i moja
In her autobiography "Lovers and Madmen", Julienne Eden Bušić wrote about the events leading up to her participation, along with her husband and three other Croatians, in the 1976 political hijacking of an American TWA plane. Her second book, "Your Blood and Mine", gives an insight into the meaning of suffering, commitment, and waiting, through a series of letters written to her imprisoned husband.
Your Blood and Mine
What can a woman write to her husband, imprisoned for over 32 years for the political hijacking of an American plane? To the cruel Censor, who monitors and judges her every word? To herself, as a means of emotional survival and introspection? This is Julienne Busic's dilemma, and she resolves it with flaying honesty and humor in this epistolary memoir about waiting, commitment, love, and loyalty.
In the Eye of the Storm
Ante Gugo has collected and painstakingly researched all the most significant events which characterized the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the creation of the Republic of Croatia, placing them in an impressive historical as well as political context. He deals not only with the Croatian War of Independence (known as the Homeland War) - which culminated in "Operation Storm" and the liberation of a quarter of Croatian territory from four years of Serb military occupation - but also takes into account the five years preceding the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, dissecting the events from the second half of the 1980s that led directly to the Serbian war of aggression against Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War
Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War examines one of the most active but least remembered groups of terrorists of the Cold War: radical anti-Yugoslav Croatian separatists. Operating in countries as widely dispersed as Sweden, Australia, Argentina, West Germany, and the United States, Croatian extremists were responsible for scores of bombings, numerous attempted and successful assassinations, two guerilla incursions into socialist Yugoslavia, and two airplane hijackings during the height of the Cold War. In Australia alone, Croatian separatists carried out no less than sixty-five significant acts of violence in one ten-year period. Diaspora Croats developed ...
Montažstroj’s Emancipatory Performance Politics
This book deals with the broader theoretical and philosophical context of performance art in former Yugoslavia, focusing on more than three decades of politically engaged performance activity of the Montažstroj group. Their activity is only a starting point for a deeper analysis of some of the key notions of contemporary “art-ivism” in a much broader post-political and globalized context before, during, and after Yugoslavia and its Socialist paradigm collapsed. The author analyzes and sets notions of agonism, engagement, terrorism, post-war trauma, political populism, social Darwinism, participation and publicness, and the public sphere into different theoretical matrixes.
American Scream
What is America? For renowned Croatian poet Dubravka Oraic Tolic, it is ""what is born from our dreams without our knowing."" As Columbus' dream of reaching India was interrupted by the discovery of a new land, we too discover unexpected lands in pursuit of our dreams. These new lands are the reality of our hopeful voyages. ""American Scream"" explores the tension between a nation's dream of freedom and the outworking of that dream. ""Palindrome Apocalypse"" explores the history of the twentieth century, beginning with the October Revolution of 1917 and ending with the bombing of Zagreb in 1991-a shadow of apocalypse. Here the exceptional poem is presented side-by-side with the Croatian so the reader can appreciate the amazing palindromic verse.
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