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Book SynopsisDimtris Tziovas is Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of
The Other Self:Selfhood and Society in Modern Greek Fiction (2003), editor of
Re-Imagining the Past: Greek Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture (2014) and
Greece in Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Austerity (2017).
Trade ReviewThis important work ... explores, through many mirrors, the multimodal cultural transition in our country. * Efimerida ton Syntakton (Bloomsbury Translation) *
This is cultural history at its best – interdisciplinary, wide-ranging and packed with well-chosen detail. Tziovas explores the shifts and turns of how Greeks have been (mis)understood, by themselves and others, since the 1970s, with an admirably open mind and a determination to move on from past stereotypes. * Roderick Beaton, Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, King's College London, UK *
‘The first ever study of cultural transformation in Greece after the 1970’s,
Greece from Junta to Crisis offers us a country in transition. Based on exhaustive research and inspired by a synthetic vision, it provides unique perspectives on a dizzying variety of topics such as national identity, gay subjectivity, popular movements, cinema, fiction, classical antiquity, the Internet, and conceptions of the west. It will become the standard work on the topic.’ * Professor Gregory Jusdanis, The Ohio State University, USA *
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1.Modernization and Cultural Dualisms 2.Eurosceptics or Europhiles? The Cultural Dilemmas of Europeanization 3.Debating the Nation and its Contested Pasts: Antiquity and Mnemohistory 4.Identity, Religion, Migration: From Homogeneity to Embracing Otherness 5.Language Questions: From Standardization to Diversity 6.From Poetry to Prose: Discovering Modernism and Revising the Canon 7.The Challenges of Deregulation: From Monophonic to Polyphonic Media 8. Cinematic Allegories: From History to Domesticity 9. Youth, Feminism and Sexuality: From Oikos to Demos 10. The Rediscoveries of Greece: From Ancient Ruins to the Ruins of Crisis Conclusion Index
