Journal of Modern Greek Studies
In Focus: Volume 29, Number 2, October 2011
A Message From the Editor
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Table of Contents
Articles
- Yiorgos Kalogeras, Retrieval and Invention: The Adaptation of Texts and the
Narrativization of Photographs in Films on Immigration
- Aikaterini Lassithiotaki and Persefoni Fokiali, Constructing the Enterprise Model of Rural Women’s Traditional
Food Production Cooperatives in Heraklion Prefecture on the
Island of Crete: The Role of Active Members
- Lena Arampatzidou, The Empire Awaits the Barbarians: A New Perspective
- Anna Efstathiadou, Representing Greekness: French and Greek Lithographs from the
Greek War of Independence (1821–1827) and the
Greek-Italian War (1940–1941)
- Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Confronting “Imperialism” and “Loneliness”: Sexual and Gender Relations Among Young Communists in Greece, 1974–1981
- Katherine Stefatos, The Psyche and the Body: Political Persecution and Gender Violence
against Women in the Greek Civil War
Review Essay
- Yiorgos Anagnostou, "Reading the Hyphen in Poetry," Dean Kostos, editor, Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry
Book Reviews
- Marinos Pourgouris, Roderick Beaton and David Ricks, editors, The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism and the Uses of the Past (1797–1896)
- Maria Boletsi, Martin McKinsey, Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination: Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott
- Paolo di Leo, Nicola Crocetti and Filippomaria Pontani, editors, Poeti greci del Novecento
- Mairi Mike, Georgia Gotsi, The Internationalization of Imagination: Relations of Greek
with Foreign Literatures in the 19th century (I diethnopoiisis tis fantasias)
Retrieval and Invention: The Adaptation of Texts and the Narrativization of Photographs in Films on Immigration
Post–World War II Greek cinema treated immigration as a theme which could be represented appropriately through comedy and melodrama. The emergence of New Greek Cinema, as well as the flourishing of modernism in European film, inspired young Greek directors to rethink the significance of immigration as a social phenomenon to be represented in their work. Influenced by Alexis Damianos’s films, Lakis Papastathis created "Letters from America (Γράμματα από την Αμερική)" (1972), a documentary that questions the cinematic representation of the immigration story as shown by earlier Greek feature films and also by Elia Kazan’s "America, America" (1963). Papastathis’s film complicates the notion that archival facts present unmediated evidence about the past.
Learn more about "Letters from America" at Short from the Past, a website in Greek devoted to creating a major archive for short films on the Internet with detailed information about the films as well as a place to view the films. View the movie below.
"The sun, dear," with lyrics Akis Panou and divine music of Nick Karanikola.
The song featured in the 1966 film "Cornertsone by Alexis Damianos.
The Empire Awaits the Barbarians:
A New Perspective
When Nikos Kazantzakis traveled to Alexandria as a newspaper correspondent in 1927, a most interesting part of his travel was the visit he paid to C. P. Cavafy at his house. The encounter of the two major Greek writers was narrated by Kazantzakis in a travel article on Cavafy. This travel text interacts mainly with Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” and provides the space for a new approach to Cavafy’s text. Introducing the themes of the nomad/barbarian and the empire, later found in the perspective of the theories of nomadology and glocalization, Kazantzakis’s travelogue reterritorializes Cavafy’s poetry and its scholarship, and provides a new space for the generic identities of texts.
Cavafy Archive
George Savidis reads "Waiting for the Barbarians" in Greek
In Focus Archive
Journal of Modern Greek Studies Journal of Modern Greek Studies is the official journal of the Modern Greek Studies Association. Volume: 29 (2011)Frequency: Semiannually Print ISSN: 0738-1727 Online ISSN: 1086-3265 |
