Kindle Underground Barbie

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Underground Barbie

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As the frequency of air-raid sirens sending an apartment building&#8217sresidents to the basement increases, the neighbor children block out reality with the toys at hand&#8212soe imported from Western Europe and North America, others regional knockoffs or questionably improvised. Ma&#353aKolanovic&#8217sUnderground Barbie brilliantly captures the vagaries of childhood as innocence gives way to the horrors of the news and the intrigues of sexual curiosity. The idealized glamour of Barbie and Ken on an endless honeymoon morphs into make-believe scenarios that reflect the splintering social structure brought about by the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s: politicians campaigning to define what it means to be a &#8220rel&#8221Croatian, a refugee ball with

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