Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (eBook)

Gerasimus Katsan, Trine Stauning Willert (Herausgeber)

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2019
290 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6339-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Autor

Gerasimus Katsan is associate professor and coordinator of the Modern Greek Program at Queens College, City University of New York.Trine Stauning Willert is honorary research fellow at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham.

Inhalt

Introduction: History in the Storyteller’s ToolboxTrine Stauning Willert and Gerasimus KatsanPart OnePopularizing Neglected Pasts1.Getting Intimate with the Unwanted Past: New Approaches to the Ottoman Legacy in Greek FictionTrine Stauning Willert2.Public History and the Revival of Repressed Sephardic Heritage in ThessalonikiKostis KornetisConstructing Past, Present, and Future in Migrant Fiction3.Poetry Traversing History: Narrating Louis Tikas in David Mason’s Ludlow Yiorgos Anagnostou4.First-Person Past, Second-Person Present, and the Future of Now: Gazmend Kapllani’s Transnational, Interpersonal TimescapesKaren EmmerichTrauma, Sentimentality, and Crisis in Literature 5.To Remember and Forgive: The Afterlives of Queen Frederica’s Childtowns in Contemporary Greek FictionVassiliki Kaisidou6. Fashioning a European Past for the National Self: Nikos Themelis’ For Some CompanionshipMaria Akritidou7.The Anxieties of History: Greek Fiction in CrisisGerasimus Katsan Satire and Nostalgia in Popular Culture8.The Use of History for the Denunciation of the Present: Lena Kitsopoulou’s Athanasios Diakos - The ComebackConstantina Georgiadi9.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 SatireJessica Kourniakti 11.Childhood Memories, Family Life, Nostalgia and Historical Trauma in Contemporary Greek Cinema Maria ChalkouPart TwoPrefaceA Visual Journey Through the Lens12.Witnesses for the Future: The Past Reflected in the Despair of the Present Sonia Liza Kenterman13.Still, Short, Cut: The Early Films of Sonia Liza KentermanCharles LockA 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 CalotychosHistory from the Storyteller’s Viewpoint15.“Four Hundred Pleats” Amanda Michalopoulou16.1948–2010: Before and After “Think Before You Learn”Sophia Nikolaidou

Produkt-Details

• Co-Autor: Georgia Aitaki, Gerasimus Katsan, Sonia Liza Kenterman, Kostis Kornetis, Jessica Kourniakti, Charles Lock, Amanda Michalopoulou, Sophia Nikolaidou, Trine Stauning Willert, Maria Akritidou, Yiorgos Anagnostou, Patricia Felisa Barbeito, Vangelis Calotychos, Maria Chalkou, Karen Emmerich, Constantina Georgiadi, Vassiliki Kaisidou
• Zusatzinfo: 30 Illustrations including: - 5 Black & White Illustrations; - 25 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Greece crisis • Greek cinema • Greek fiction • Greek Literature • Greek Popular Culture • historical trauma • history writing • Modern Greek History • National narratives • Nostalgia
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6339-2 / 1498563392
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6339-0 / 9781498563390