Citations:xenomania

English citations of xenomania

Preference for foreign customs

• [1932, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, translated by Suzanne Brill, The Futurist Cookbook‎^[1], Penguin Books Limited, published 2014, →ISBN:

  In Italy, as in almost every country in the world, we submit to this type of international grand hotel cuisine only because it comes from abroad. A bestial mania unfortunately dominates us, which we call xenomania, which we must fight against relentlessly.]

• 1989, John Goodliffe, “Book reviews”, in New Zealand Slavonic Journal, page 175:

  The basic difference between Narezhny's novel and Bulgarin's is that whereas the former uses his Western-style picaresque hero negatively as a means of satirising early nineteenth-century Russian xenomania, the latter treats him as a positive figure, bringing progressive European ideas into a backward Russia.

• [1999, Nikolaos Bozatzis, Greek National Identity in Talk (Lancaster University Ph.D. thesis):

  (quoting Nikos Dimou): Κάποιος πρέπει να γράψει κάποτε το παράξενο ρομάντζο της ελληνικής ξενολατρίας και ξενοφοβίας...

  A possible translation for this quotation would be something like: "somebody has to write at some point the strange romance of Greek xenolatria and xenophobia". The terms "xenolatria", i.e "worship for the foreign" and "xenomania", i.e. "madness for the foreign" are used interchangeably both in modern Greek parlance and in the literature, academic or otherwise.]

• 2006, Kevin Frank, “Abroad At Home: Xenomania and Voluntary Exile in The Middle Passage, Salt, and Tide Running”, in Journal of Caribbean Studies, volume 20, number 3, page 178:

  Part of the problem is that the squalid conditions of their lives are far removed from the romantic and other fantasies of the United States they are spoon-fed. Their family is the antithesis of "that family in Days of Our Lives, he going out to work and she staying home with they lovely rosy baby." The result, then, is that whatever inactivity is induced coexists with a monomaniacal xenomania: an obsessive identification with abroad, and an active projection of their selves abroad.

• 2018, John Zmirak, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration‎^[2], →ISBN:

  The Democrats' lurch toward open borders and xenomania is carving off large chunks of their base and handing it to Republicans […]