Coming Out Swiss: In Search of Heidi, Chocolate, and My Other Life

by Anne Herrmann

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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 clich?s.
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Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:029929840X

ISBN13:9780299298401

Release Date:April 2014

Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.96 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 8.5"

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