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"Stranger in the Village"

In the essay "Stranger in the Village" the author tells about his experience in a small Swiss mountain village where he visited from America. In this very small secluded town populated by all white people the author is the only black person that the people of the village have ever seen. "From all available evidence no black man had ever set foot in this tiny Swiss village before I came," (93). The author would stay in the village for a short stay and then go back to the US, but he often returned to work on his writings, due to the fact that the village had few distractions. Even though he is no longer a stranger to the village the natives still treat him as so. "Everyone in the village knows my name, though they scarcely ever use it," (94).
The author likens his feelings of "loneliness" and being out of place in the tiny Swiss village to the black man's general feeling of being a stranger in an unfamiliar world created by the white man. He says that......

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