Granta #84 Over There: How America Sees the World

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Granta 84: Over There: How America Sees the World

The USA is the world's newest, greatest and only empire. And, some would say, the world's most insular state as well as the most powerful, never troubling to correct its ignorance of the people and places beyond its borders.

Is it a slander? In this issue of Granta, American writers describe their encounters abroad and how they were affected by them, while, in reportage and fiction, outsiders to America come upon the strangeness of the place itself.

Two years ago, in the wake of September 11 and the invasion of Afghanistan, Granta asked writers across the globe to describe how America had influenced their lives—culturally, politically, economically, for good or ill. For this issue we turned Granta 77's question around and asked American writers how they had encountered countries other than their own.

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Also check out an earlier issue that asked the world what they thought of America:

Granta #77