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The First and Last Country: Some Notes on Writing and Living the Foreign
- University of Toronto Quarterly
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 82, Number 2, Spring 2013
- pp. 198-204
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In this essay, Karen Connelly reflects on how travel to foreign places and learning foreign languages have played a role in her writing development. While the body is the first and last country for the writer, she makes her home in strangeness, remaining aware of the shape-shifting impact of empathy for others.