131:", generating an opposition between auto-images and hetero-images. An auto-image is the representation of the self, while a hetero-image is the representation of the other. These representations stress difference, in keeping with the assumption that "a nation is most characteristically itself in precisely those aspects in which it is most different from others". In ethnotyping, national character serves as an explanatory factor for the behaviour of the actors in literary representations. Oppositional patterns such as North-South, East-West or Centre-Periphery with their concomitant stereotypes serve to contrast nations, regions or continents to each other. In this multi-scalar logic, the same location can be the Centre to one Other and the Periphery to another Other. These representations are changing over time, depending on multiple factors, such as the political and social climate and literary trends.
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