Literary notes about xenophobia (AI summary)
In literature, the term xenophobia is often employed as a multifaceted device to explore social and political tensions. Authors use it to illustrate the explosive effects of prejudice in urban environments, where sudden outbreaks of hostility can lead to riots ([1]), as well as to depict the persistent discrimination and personal anguish experienced by individuals ([2], [3]). Xenophobia also serves as a vehicle for critiquing political rhetoric and national sentiment, highlighting how fear of the other is interwoven with both personal identity and collective policy ([4], [5]). Additionally, the word is used to mark shifts in societal attitudes—from outright paranoia to a more cautious wariness ([6])—and to underscore the underlying currents that shape discourse, satire, and even historical narratives ([7], [8], [9]). This layered usage reflects the ever-present nature of xenophobia in shaping and mirroring the complexities of human interaction ([10], [11], [12], [13], [14]).
- Acute attacks of xenophobia often caused riots in the city.
— from Saint Augustin by Louis Bertrand - They often encounter xenophobia and discrimination, sometimes made worse by racist politicians.
— from The Belgian Curtain: Europe after Communism by Samuel Vaknin - I suffer from agoraphobia and xenophobia.
— from In Case of Fire by Randall Garrett - What in the West they esteem as national sentiment, in the East they consider xenophobia.'
— from The New World of Islam by Lothrop Stoddard - But every re-election ticket still requires a modicum of xenophobia, ethnic exclusivity, and radicalism.
— from Financial Crime and Corruption by Samuel Vaknin - Paranoid xenophobia was replaced by guarded wariness.
— from Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era by Samuel Vaknin - This intuition, it seems, is based less on statistics than on plain old xenophobia.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin - Actually, the modern state was established on a foundation of artificially fanned antagonism and xenophobia.
— from Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin - This xenophobia is a remarkably constant feature of eighteenth-century satire on "taste.
— from The Man of Taste by James Bramston - Mild strands of paranoid xenophobia permeate public discourse in central Europe and, even more so, in east Europe.
— from The Belgian Curtain: Europe after Communism by Samuel Vaknin - The bigots, the hatemongers, the pettiness and xenophobia lurking in everybody haven't been asleep that long.
— from Blueblood by Jim Harmon - Competing influences, paranoia, xenophobia and adverse circumstances all conspired to fracture the religious landscape.
— from Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin - "So it was xenophobia," Ekstrohm ventured.
— from The Planet with No Nightmare by Jim Harmon - The traveller will not find it easy to acquire the necessary first-hand data, while the other is warped by his congenital xenophobia.
— from Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas
