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.
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.
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.
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Introduction: History in the Storyteller's Toolbox 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
Introduction: History in the Storyteller's Toolbox 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
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