Your Country Is Great: Afghanistan-Guyana

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Your Country Is Great: Afghanistan-Guyana

Poetry. "Reading travel literatureâ€”not to mention postcards or emails from your friendsâ€”will never be the same after reading Ara Shirinyan's hilarious and sardonic YOUR COUNTRY IS GREAT: AFGHANISTAN-GUYANA. Proceeding alphabetically and hence giving equal time to nations as diverse as Belarus and Belgium, Cameroon and Canada, and splicing found text to produce capsule descriptions of one 'great' place to visit after another, Shirinyan exposes the fault lines of contemporary geopolitics with much wit and aplomb"â€”Marjorie Perloff.

"Ara Shirinyan gives us an early glimpse at the deadening effects of globalization on language. Collapsing the space between the 'real world' and the World Wide Web, this book calls into question: What is local? What is national? What is multicultural? Instead of accepting current notions of language as a medium of differentiation, Shirinyan persuasively demonstrates its leveling quality, demolishing meaning into a puddle of platitudes. In a time when everything is great, yet nothing is great, you can almost hear Andy Warholâ€”the king of blandness and neutralityâ€”saying, 'Gee, this book is great.'"â€”Kenneth Goldsmith
Country USA
Brand Futurepoem
Manufacturer Futurepoem Books
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780971680081
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Futurepoem
Manufacturer	Futurepoem Books
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780971680081
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Your Country Is Great: Afghanistan-Guyana

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