Interculturality and Creativity

Abstract

At the beginning of this book I explored the notion of interculturality and queried how best one might categorize the writers under consideration here. Given that all of them have experienced more than one language and more than one cultural setting, I opted for the term ‘intercultural’ — although not without some reservations. Many of the authors themselves are unhappy with such categories. Marica Bodrožić rejects any notion of authors as being ‘in-between’ one language and another or one cultural setting and another:

I think every writer is in-between but nobody stays put in one place in-between. Every place is changing all the time even the place where we are sitting now. I don’t have the impression in my case that I am in-between this world or that language or between one culture and another. I think language is the place where you can pull all these ‘in-betweens’ together. One is moving all the time. (Bodrožić, interview)