The Displaced Nation

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Tag Archives: Alice in Wonderland

Is there a common theme — or better yet meme — for the expat life?

15 Comments Posted by on April 23, 2012

After writing, planning, commissioning, and editing posts for this site for just over a year — many of which were centered on the keyword “expat” — I have become rather fixated on that word of late. Yes, we’re back to that old chestnut, but kindly indulge me while I rake it over the coals again [...]

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“We read to know we’re not alone”: 1st-ever litfest for expats & random nomads

15 Comments Posted by on April 16, 2012

The displaced writer Hazel Rochman once said that reading “makes immigrants of us all”: Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. That must be why author interviews have played such an important role in the entertainment mix provided by The Displaced Nation since our founding one year [...]

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RETURN TRIP: 5 lessons Wonderland taught me about the expat life, by Lewis Carroll’s Alice

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 31, 2011

August is finally drawing to a close — we hope you managed to have an enchanting time of it. Here is one more in our series of “return trips” to posts that, for one reason or another, enchanted our readers. Enjoy! All three members of The Displaced Nation team have found Alice, of Wonderland and [...]

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Some enchanted headgear — a final glimpse of English summer

1 Comment Posted by on August 30, 2011

As August draws to a close, Sebastian Doggart offers this parting glance at the summer creations of an up-and-coming English millinery designer. One of the winners of The Displaced Nation’s Alice Awards for curious, unreal travel writing, Doggart has also contributed a travel yarn about his pilgrimage to GoldenEye in Jamaica, where Ian Fleming wrote [...]

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The Displaced Nation’s monthly themes — witty, wacky, wise, all or none of the above?

5 Comments Posted by on August 17, 2011

Before drawing up the charter, as it were, for The Displaced Nation in April, the site’s two Founding Mothers — Kate Allison and myself — and its one Founding Father, Anthony Windram, engaged in some vigorous debate over what the site’s “categories” should be. We had met through our blogs. What topics did we all [...]

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RETURN TRIP: Travel author Janet Brown channels Alice in Wonderland’s “tone deaf” adventures

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 12, 2011

While our writers take off on what they hope will be enchanting August breaks, The Displaced Nation will occasionally be reissuing some posts that, for one reason or another, enchanted our readers. Enjoy these “return trips”! June was “Alice in Wonderland” month in The Displaced Nation, and the enchanting travel author Janet Brown came to [...]

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Two displaced royals, William & Kate, in la-la land

15 Comments Posted by on July 11, 2011

We welcome Emily Henry to The Displaced Nation as a guest blogger. In this post on the royal visit to California that just took place, Emily neatly combines two of our blog’s favorite topics: what Alice in Wonderland can teach us about the displaced life, and how to assess royalty from within a global framework. [...]

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THE DISPLACED READS: 7 books with a twist of Alice

1 Comment Posted by on July 8, 2011

As it’s that time of year when (depending on your hemisphere) poolside or fireside books are a must, and since we’re not quite ready to let go of the Alice theme, we at TDN have come up with our own version of a summer (or winter) reading list. In our usual perverse manner, we haven’t [...]

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DISPLACED Q: Wimbledon — is it an anachronism in today’s international sporting world?

4 Comments Posted by on June 28, 2011

Given that Fred Perry was the last British man to win a Wimbledon singles event (1936) and Virginia Wade the last British woman (1977), the British public’s enthusiasm for this rather quaint championship is surprising. Then again, nothing fuels their enthusiasm as much as cheering on the underdog, and goodness knows, there are underdogs aplenty [...]

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“Zuzu in Prahaland”: A departing expat takes inventory of strange, Lovecraftian Prague

15 Comments Posted by on June 27, 2011

For much of June, The Displaced Nation has been looking at what the story of Alice in Wonderland can tell us about displacement of the curious, unreal kind — as anchored by Kate Allison’s 5 Lessons Wonderland taught me about the expat life, by Lewis Carroll’s Alice. Today we welcome guest blogger Sezin Koehler, who [...]

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