Dimitriu - When we are the other
ixÁx).
Murphy undertakes her journey with mixed expectations: on the one hand, she is
eager to share the happiness of a dictatorship-free nation; on the other, she expects to
find `much hardship, tension, dissention, suspicion' (1992, p. xiv). Hoffman adopts
the hegemonic Western cliche´ of `the other Europe' as `less developed, less civilized,
more turbulent and strife-ridden, [. . .] a source either of primitive savagery or of
operetta entertainment' (1999, p. 11)
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