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Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
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This book deals with historical consciousness and its artistic expressions in contemporary Greece since 1989 from the point of view that contemporary Greeks have been faced with the contradictions between on the one hand a glorious, world-famous yet distant past and, on the other, a traumatic contemporary history of wars, expulsions, civil strife and political and economic crises. Such clashes of imaginary identifications and collective traumas call for interpretations not only from historians but also from artists and storytellers. Therefore, the chapters in this volume explore the ways in which sensitive and creative perspectives of art approach and appropriate history in Greece.
Through a rich collection of analytical case studies and creative reflections on Greece’s past, present, and future this volume presents the reader with the ways a set of contemporary Greek storytellers in different genres have incorporated previously under-explored or little-known themes, events, and epochs in modern Greek history showing how the past, by being interpreted and represented in the present, can teach us a lot about contemporary Greek society. The themes that form the point of departure for the stories told or retold cover various significant components of Greek history and culture such as ancient myths, the Ottoman period, the Greek War of Independence and the Greek Civil War, but also less prominent or known aspects of Greek history such as the Greek Enlightenment, the long and tragic history of Greek Jewry, and migration to and from Greece.
Table of Contents
Trine Stauning Willert and Gerasimus Katsan
Part One
Popularizing Neglected Pasts
1.Getting Intimate with the Unwanted Past: New Approaches to the Ottoman Legacy in Greek Fiction
Trine Stauning Willert
2.Public History and the Revival of Repressed Sephardic Heritage in Thessaloniki
Kostis Kornetis
Constructing Past, Present, and Future in Migrant Fiction
3.Poetry Traversing History: Narrating Louis Tikas in David Mason’s Ludlow
Yiorgos Anagnostou
4.First-Person Past, Second-Person Present, and the Future of Now: Gazmend Kapllani’s Transnational, Interpersonal Timescapes
Karen Emmerich
Trauma, Sentimentality, and Crisis in Literature
5.To Remember and Forgive: The Afterlives of Queen Frederica’s Childtowns in Contemporary Greek Fiction
Vassiliki Kaisidou
6. Fashioning a European Past for the National Self: Nikos Themelis’ For Some Companionship
Maria Akritidou
7.The Anxieties of History: Greek Fiction in Crisis
Gerasimus Katsan
Satire and Nostalgia in Popular Culture
8.The Use of History for the Denunciation of the Present: Lena Kitsopoulou’s Athanasios Diakos - The Comeback
Constantina Georgiadi
9.Television Fiction as a Window into a Nation’s Past: The Arbitraries and the Concept of the Neohellene
Georgia Aitaki
10.Ancient Greek Mythology and the Culture of the Neohellene in Animated TV Satire
Jessica Kourniakti
11.Childhood Memories, Family Life, Nostalgia and Historical Trauma in Contemporary Greek Cinema
Maria Chalkou
Part Two
Preface
A Visual Journey Through the Lens
12.Witnesses for the Future: The Past Reflected in the Despair of the Present
Sonia Liza Kenterman
13.Still, Short, Cut: The Early Films of Sonia Liza Kenterman
Charles Lock
A Literary Echo of the Refugee Crisis
14.What Are They After, Our Souls, Off the Coast of Lesbos?: Reflections on Elias Venezis’ “The Isle of Lios” (1928)
Patricia Felisa Barbeito and Vangelis Calotychos
History from the Storyteller’s Viewpoint
15.“Four Hundred Pleats”
Amanda Michalopoulou
16.1948–2010: Before and After “Think Before You Learn”
Sophia Nikolaidou
Product details
| Published | Jan 22 2019 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 290 |
| ISBN | 9781498563383 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Illustrations | 5 b/w illustrations; 25 b/w photos; |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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