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Book SynopsisIn this pioneering study of contemporary Greek poetry, Karen Van Dyck investigates modernist and postmodernist poetics at the edge of Europe. She traces the influential role of Greek women writers back to the sexual politics of censorship under the dictatorship (1967-1974). Reading the effects of censorship—in cartoons, the dictator's speeches...
Trade Review"Moving with ease across a wide range of critical approaches, Van Dyck writes as lucidly and elegantly as she translates. At once bold and meticulous, her book will be enjoyed by students of literature and of Greece-a must for courses in comparative literature, cultural studies, and women's studies."-Margaret Alexiou
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Introduction
1. Power, Language, and the Discourses of the Dictatorship
Greece As a Patient in a Cast
Censorship and the Question of Silence
Discursive Styles and Political Practices
Telling the Truth in Eighteen Texts
Dionysis Savvopoulos's Plastic Flag
2. Poetry, Politics, and the Generation of the 1970s
The So-Called Generation of the 1970s
Lefteris Poulios's Political Beat
Vasilis Steriadis's Poetry Strip
3. Women's Writing and the Sexual Politics of Censorship
The Figure of Woman under the Dictatorship
Kyr's Lysistrata
Kassandra's Wolf and Wolf's Cassandra
The Social Text of Women's Poetry after the Dictatorship
Sexual Politics and Poetic Form
4. Rhea Galanaki's The Cake and the Deferred Delivery
Figuring (Out) Woman
The Cake is Pink
The Sexual Politics of Mimesis
Writing As a Pregnant Woman
5. Jenny Mastoraki's Tales of the Deep and the Purloined Letter
The Place Where Terrible Things Happen
Writing the Dreamwork
The Exhibition of Prohibition
The Purloined Letter and the Woman Reader
6. Maria Laina's Hers and the Unreciprocated Look
The Look of Censorship
Toward an Alternative Grammar of Self
Finding the Ground of Love Elsewhere
Epilogue
Works Consulted
Index
