Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of MemoryUniversity of Chicago Press, 28 Οκτ 2011 - 352 σελίδες At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe, while their adversaries in the national government placed the rest in children’s homes elsewhere in Greece. A point of contention during the Cold War, this controversial episode continues to fuel tensions between Greeks and Macedonians and within Greek society itself. Loring M. Danforth and Riki Van Boeschoten present here for the first time a comprehensive study of the two evacuation programs and the lives of the children they forever transformed. Marshalling archival records, oral histories, and ethnographic fieldwork, the authors analyze the evacuation process, the political conflict surrounding it, the children’s upbringing, and their fates as adults cut off from their parents and their homeland. They also give voice to seven refugee children who poignantly recount their childhood experiences and heroic efforts to construct new lives in diaspora communities throughout the world. A much-needed corrective to previous historical accounts, Children of the Greek Civil War is also a searching examination of the enduring effects of displacement on the lives of refugee children. |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory Loring M. Danforth,Riki Van Boeschoten Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2012 |
Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory Loring M. Danforth,Riki Van Boeschoten Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2011 |
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