" U]shers the reader into the complexities of the categorical ambiguity of Cyprus and]... concentrates... on the Dead Zone of the divided society, in the cultural space where those who refuse to go to the poles gather." --Anastasia Karakasidou, Wellesley College

The volatile recent past of Cyprus has turned this island from the idyllic "island of Aphrodite" of tourist literature into a place renowned for hostile confrontations. Cyprus challenges familiar binary divisions, between Christianity and Islam, Greeks and Turks, Europe and the East, tradition and modernity. Anti-colonial...