Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature, Film, and Popular CultureTrine Stauning Willert, Gerasimus Katsan Rowman & Littlefield, 22 Ιαν 2019 - 290 σελίδες 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. |
Περιεχόμενα
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Chapter Two Public History and the Revival of Repressed Sephardic Heritage in Thessaloniki | 29 |
CONSTRUCTING PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE IN MIGRANT FICTION | 47 |
Narrating Louis Tikas in David Masons Ludlow | 49 |
Gazmend Kapllanis Transnational Interpersonal Timescapes | 67 |
Chapter Eleven Childhood Memories Family Life Nostalgia and Historical Trauma in Contemporary Greek Cinema | 185 |
Part Two | 201 |
Preface | 203 |
A VISUAL JOURNEY THROUGH THE LENS | 205 |
The Past Reflected in the Despair of the Present | 207 |
The Early Films of Sonia Liza Kenterman | 219 |
A LITERARY ECHO OF THE REFUGEE CRISIS | 229 |
Chapter Fourteen What Are They After Our Souls Off the Coast of Lesbos? Reflections on Elias Venezis The Isle of Lios 1928 | 231 |
TRAUMA SENTIMENTALITY AND CRISIS IN LITERATURE | 83 |
The Afterlives of Queen Fredericas Childtowns in Contemporary Greek Fiction | 85 |
Nikos Themelis For Some Companionship | 103 |
Greek Fiction in Crisis | 117 |
SATIRE AND NOSTALGIA IN POPULAR CULTURE | 133 |
Lena Kitsopoulous Athanasios DiakosThe Comeback | 135 |
The Arbitraries and the Concept of the Neohellene | 151 |
Chapter Ten Ancient Greek Mythology and the Culture of the Neohellene in Animated TV Satire | 165 |
The Isle of Lios | 239 |
HISTORY FROM THE STORYTELLERS VIEWPOINT | 255 |
Chapter Fifteen Four Hundred Pleats | 257 |
Chapter Sixteen Think Before You Learn | 261 |
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About the Contributors | 273 |
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