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Coming Out Swiss: In Search of Heidi, Chocolate, and My Other Life
Anne Herrmann
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Description for Coming Out Swiss: In Search of Heidi, Chocolate, and My Other Life
Hardcover. Part memoir, part history and travelogue, "Coming Out Swiss "is a marvelous voyage on a search for community and culture. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DFH; BM; HBJD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 417.
Anne Herrmann, a dual citizen born in New York to Swiss parents, offers in Coming Out Swiss a witty, profound, and ultimately universal exploration of identity and community. “Swissness”—even on its native soil a loose confederacy, divided by multiple languages, nationalities, religion, and alpen geography—becomes in the diaspora both nowhere (except in the minds of immigrants and their children) and everywhere, reflected in pervasive clichés.
In a work that is part memoir, part history and travelogue, Herrmann explores all our Swiss clichés (chocolate, secret bank accounts, Heidi, Nazi gold, neutrality, mountains, Swiss Family Robinson) and also scrutinizes topics that ... Read more
Anne Herrmann, a dual citizen born in New York to Swiss parents, offers in Coming Out Swiss a witty, profound, and ultimately universal exploration of identity and community. “Swissness”—even on its native soil a loose confederacy, divided by multiple languages, nationalities, religion, and alpen geography—becomes in the diaspora both nowhere (except in the minds of immigrants and their children) and everywhere, reflected in pervasive clichés.
In a work that is part memoir, part history and travelogue, Herrmann explores all our Swiss clichés (chocolate, secret bank accounts, Heidi, Nazi gold, neutrality, mountains, Swiss Family Robinson) and also scrutinizes topics that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299298401
SKU
V9780299298401
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About Anne Herrmann
Anne Herrmann is professor emerita of English and women’s studies at the University of Michigan, USA. She is the author of four books, including The Dialogic and Difference: An/Other Woman in Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf and Queering the Moderns: Poses/Portraits/Performances.
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