{"product_id":"retelling-the-past-in-contemporary-greek-literature-film-and-popular-culture-9781498563383","title":"Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith contributions from scholars, fiction writers, and filmmakers, this is a rich volume exploring iconoclastic treatments of the past together with some neglected legacies. Focusing on post-classical Greece, it offers thought-provoking papers on a variety of genres (narratives, poems, films, and plays) and invites readers to engage critically with silences and traumatic memories. It analyzes the uses of history in different cultural forms and contexts after 1989, which serves as a key date, and offers a useful prism through which to view contemporary Greece. -- Dimitris Tziovas, University of Birmingham\u003cbr\u003eCombining scholarly texts with practitioners’ reflections and literary translations, this eclectic collection focuses on the entanglements of history on Greece’s contemporary fiction making, offering a fascinating insight into the range, variety, and sophistication of creative work produced in, and in connection to, the country and its past. The contributions enlighten neglected histories, engage with migrant narratives, address crisis and trauma, and situate the popular at the heart of contemporary retellings of the past. The creative work sampled evidences the richness of the cultural output emanating from Greece and leaves the reader wishing for more. -- Lydia Papadimitriou, Liverpool John Moores University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: History in the Storyteller’s Toolbox Trine Stauning Willert and Gerasimus Katsan  Part One  Popularizing Neglected Pasts 1.\tGetting Intimate with the Unwanted Past: New Approaches to the Ottoman Legacy in Greek Fiction Trine Stauning Willert 2.\tPublic History and the Revival of Repressed Sephardic Heritage in Thessaloniki Kostis Kornetis  Constructing Past, Present, and Future in Migrant Fiction 3.\tPoetry Traversing History: Narrating Louis Tikas in David Mason’s Ludlow  Yiorgos Anagnostou 4.\tFirst-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.\tTo Remember and Forgive: The Afterlives of Queen Frederica’s Childtowns in Contemporary Greek Fiction Vassiliki Kaisidou 6.\t Fashioning a European Past for the National Self: Nikos Themelis’ For Some Companionship Maria Akritidou 7.\tThe Anxieties of History: Greek Fiction in Crisis Gerasimus Katsan   Satire and Nostalgia in Popular Culture 8.\tThe Use of History for the Denunciation of the Present: Lena Kitsopoulou’s Athanasios Diakos - The Comeback Constantina Georgiadi 9.\tTelevision Fiction as a Window into a Nation’s Past: The Arbitraries and the Concept of the Neohellene  Georgia Aitaki  10.\tAncient Greek Mythology and the Culture of the Neohellene in Animated TV Satire Jessica Kourniakti  11.\tChildhood Memories, Family Life, Nostalgia and Historical Trauma in Contemporary Greek Cinema  Maria Chalkou  Part Two  Preface  A Visual Journey Through the Lens 12.\tWitnesses for the Future: The Past Reflected in the Despair of the Present  Sonia Liza Kenterman 13.\tStill, Short, Cut: The Early Films of Sonia Liza Kenterman Charles Lock  A Literary Echo of the Refugee Crisis  14.\tWhat 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.\t“Four Hundred Pleats”  Amanda Michalopoulou 16.\t1948–2010: Before and After “Think Before You Learn” Sophia Nikolaidou","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040788578647,"sku":"9781498563383","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498563383.jpg?v=1750947845","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/retelling-the-past-in-contemporary-greek-literature-film-and-popular-culture-9781498563383","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}