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 cliches. In
a work that is part memoir, part history and travelogue, Herrmann
explores all our Swiss cliches (chocolate, secret bank accounts,
Heidi, Nazi gold, neutrality, mountains, Swiss Family Robinson) and
also scrutinizes topics that may surprise (the "invention" of the
Alps, the English Colony in Davos, Switzerland's role during World
War II, women students at the University of Zurich in the 1870s).
She ponders, as well, marks of Swissness that have lost their
identity in the diaspora (Sutter Home, Helvetica, Dadaism) and the
enduring Swiss American community of New Glarus, Wisconsin. Coming
Out Swiss will appeal not just to the Swiss diaspora but also to
those drawn to multi-genre writing that blurs boundaries between
the personal and the historical.
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