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Part biography and part ethnography, this study aims to contextualize the life of Nenedakis, who endured persecution, exile, imprisonment and torture. It examines the Greek author's novels and recollections as historical accounts, and shows how different perspectives shape the historical record.

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Preface 1: Anticipations 2: Provincial Beginnings 3: Crete, Athens, the World 4: Disillusionments of Exile 5: Sentence of Death, Rebuilding the Life 6: Hand to Mouth: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman 7: Sordid Power: Colonels and Exiles 8: From the Cretan War to a Battle of Books 9: Painting an Ethnographic Portrait References Index

Portrait of a Green Imagination An Ethnographic

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/19/1998 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226329093, 978-0226329093
      ISBN10: 0226329097
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      Literary studies: fiction Sociology and anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Part biography and part ethnography, this study aims to contextualize the life of Nenedakis, who endured persecution, exile, imprisonment and torture. It examines the Greek author's novels and recollections as historical accounts, and shows how different perspectives shape the historical record.

      Table of Contents
      Preface 1: Anticipations 2: Provincial Beginnings 3: Crete, Athens, the World 4: Disillusionments of Exile 5: Sentence of Death, Rebuilding the Life 6: Hand to Mouth: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman 7: Sordid Power: Colonels and Exiles 8: From the Cretan War to a Battle of Books 9: Painting an Ethnographic Portrait References Index

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