Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual

ISBN-13: 9781900755856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 220 str.

Peter Mackridge; Eleni Yannakakis

Opis

This volume - the collective work of academics, literary critics and fiction writers - investigates new trends that have emerged in contemporary Greek fiction and places this local literature within an international context.

Spis treści

Introduction Greek Fiction in the Age of Globalization; 1: An Overview of Tendencies and Perspectives; 1: Centrifugal Topographies, Cultural Allegories and Metafictional Strategies in Greek Fiction since 1974; 2: Shifting Spaces, Drifting Identities; 2: The Greeks in the Balkans, the Balkans in Greece: Greek Fiction’s First Steps towards Acknowledging the Other Next Door; 3: The Alpha Males and Worker Bees of the Balkan Honeycomb: Economic Migrants in Contemporary Greek Fiction; 4: The Dislocated Self in a Global Situation; 5: Geographical and Ideological Wanderings: Greek Fiction of the 1990s; 3: The Global as Local; 6: From the Underworld to Other Worlds: Political Attitudes in Contemporary Greek Fiction; 7: ‘The Ultimate Art of our Greek Corruption’: 1 The Global as an Experimental Expansion of the Local in Yorgis Yatromanolakis’s Fiction; 4: Fragmented Worlds; 8: In and Out of the Text: Games across Genres in Modern Greek Fiction; 9: The Individual within Multiple Worlds in Greek Short Stories since 1974; 10: Ideology’s Discontents in Thanassis Valtinos’s Data from the Decade of the Sixties; 5: New Treatments of Old Themes; 11: The Portrait of the Artist in the Late Twentieth Century; 12: Angels in the Storm: The Portrait of the Woman Writer in Three Contemporary Novels by Women; 13: The Disunification of the Nation: Contemporary Greek Historical Fiction and Collective Identities

O autorze

Peter Mackridge