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n. - The quality of being not alike.

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  • Whatever that otherness is seems to come from somewhere deep within us.
  • Then, in a kind of mockingly Hegelian negation of negation, the very dimension of otherness is cancelled: one does it with oneself.
  • Then, as Americans, they found themselves consigned to a perpetual state of 'otherness' - twice treated as strangers in their own land.
  • We publish even including the one-off collections, which are often not especially "otherness"-related only 17-18 stories and 20 poems per year.
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