Retelling the past in contemporary Greek literature, film, and popular culture
Trine Stauning Willert (Editor), Gerasimus Katsan (Editor)
"Over the past thirty years, the representation of Greek history in literature, film, and popular culture has undergone significant change. This book investigates the ways in which history operates as a tool for contemporary storytellers in various genres to contemplate the meaning of the past and its implications for the future"-- Provided by publisher
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource
9781498563390, 1498563392
1081336591
Introduction. History in the storyteller's toolbox / Trine Stauning Willert and Gerasimus Katsan
Getting intimate with the unwanted past : new approaches to the Ottoman legacy in Greek fiction / Trine Stauning Willert
Public history and the revival of repressed Sephardic heritage in Thessaloniki / Kostis Kornetis
Poetry traversing history : narrating Louis Tikas in David Mason's Ludlow / Yiorgos Anagnostou
First-person past, second-person present, and the future of now : Gazmend Kapllani's transnational, interpersonal timescapes / Karen Emmerich
To remember and forgive : the afterlives of Queen Frederica's Childtowns in contemporary Greek fiction / Vassiliki Kaisidou
Fashioning a European past for the national self : Nikos Themelis' for some companionship / Maria Akritidou
The anxieties of history : Greek fiction in crisis / Gerasimus Katsan
The use of history for the denunciation of the present : Lena Kitsopoulou's Athanasios diakos
the comeback / Constantina Georgiadi
Television fiction as a window into a nation's past : the arbitraries and the concept of the Neohellene / Georgia Aitaki
Ancient Greek mythology and the culture of the Neohellene in animated TV satire / Jessica Kourniakti
Childhood memories, family life, nostalgia and historical trauma in contemporary Greek cinema / Maria Chalkou
Witnesses for the future : the past reflected in the despair of the present / Sonia Liza Kenterman
Still, short, cut: the early films of Sonia Liza Kenterman / Charles Lock
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
"Four hundred pleats" / Amanda Michalopoulou
1948-2010 : before and after "Think before you learn" / Sophia Nikolaidou