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Margaret Atwood
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MARGARET ATWOOD

The Art of Fiction No. 121
Interviewed by Mary Morris
Issue 117, Winter 1990
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From the Interview
INTERVIEWER
You’ve written about the theme of foreignness a good deal.

ATWOOD
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire, or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.
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