Dubravka Ugrešić : Fox & American Fictionary
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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American Fictionary - The Importance of Writing About Other Countries
In American fictionary you do write about other countries and diaries. You say that all three smack of narcissism which is undoubtedly the basic premise of any literary act but shouldn't also be its outcome. The impulse to write about foreign countries is always an impulse of colonizer okay so you come and you colonize tourists are colonizers too people who judge about other countries Other people also sort of colonizers from the other hand I mean a position of a of a colonizer is also sort of you know inferior because you are aware that you would never really understand it.
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