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Verbeugung vor Spiegeln
“Bowing Before Mirrors” (title translated by AI)
Martin R. Dean (born 1955)
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In a kind of encounter with himself, the writer, son of a Swiss mother and a father from Trinidad, looks for traces of his own transformation: how much the foreign, the encounter with the other, on journeys and in literature, has made him who he is. He reaches a surprising conclusion. The foreign, the true capital of modernity, threatens to disappear in the processes of globalisation. To win it back, we must insist that the foreign stay foreign, and bear it; above all, we must unlearn the wish to make it understandable to ourselves. Essays against the disappearance of tolerance.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 101 pages in the original
- Genres
- Migration (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2015 by Jung und Jung Verlag
- Author's age
- 60 when first published
- ISBN
9783990270691 (original)