Just as xenophobia is the fear of the stranger, xenophilia is the opposite – the love of the strange, the interest in the foreign. And all the literature ever stood behind it.
From the times of Homer, who glorified the hospitality to strangers, and up until Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land, where Hindi films united the inhabitants of an Egyptian village, there have always been tales of the meeting between different peoples.
Literary authors, who believe in xenophilia, do not simply write about other cultures; they also listen to them, understand and embrace them. They are translators not only of words but also of entire worlds.
And when, in modern times, national borders become more difficult to cross and the languages are becoming more and more different, xenophilia becomes almost a revolutionary literary phenomenon.
As it makes one understand the fact that empathy is more powerful than geography.
For every story is always an overcoming –
And a reader is always a traveler.
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