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Legenda: Oxford, 2004
£35.00 ($65.00 US)  Paperback  220pp
ISBN: 1-900755-85-8

After more than two decades as a full member of the European Union, Greece has produced a literature with radically different orientations from previous periods. The former obsession of fiction with national history and local identity has been superseded by a focus on individual characters in search of themselves, often beyond the boundaries of their own country. At the same time, exciting new prose fiction has toppled poetry — for three thousand years the most significant literary medium in Greece — from its pre-eminent position. This volume, a collaboration of academics, literary critics and fiction writers, investigates the dramatically new trends that have emerged in contemporary Greek fiction and places them within an international context.

Peter Mackridge is Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College. Eleni Yannakakis is a Faculty Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

With the contributions:

Peter Mackridge, Eleni Yannakakis — Introduction — Greek Fiction in the Age of Globalization
Dimitris Tziovas — Centrifugal Topographies, Cultural Allegories and Metafictional Strategies in Greek Fiction since 1974
Vangelis Hatzivassiliou — The Greeks in the Balkans, the Balkans in Greece: Greek Fiction’s First Steps towards Acknowledging the Other Next Door
Vangelis Calotychos — The Alpha Males and Worker Bees of the Balkan Honeycomb: Economic Migrants in Contemporary Greek Fiction
Mary Mike — The Dislocated Self in a Global Situation
Eleni Yannakakis — Geographical and Ideological Wanderings: Greek Fiction of the 1990s
Venetia Apostolidou — From the Underworld to Other Worlds: Political Attitudes in Contemporary Greek Fiction
Vangelis Athanassopoulos — ‘The Ultimate Art of our Greek Corruption’: The Global as an Experimental Expansion of the Local in Yorgis Yatromanolakis’s Fiction
Maria Kakavoulia — In and Out of the Text: Games across Genres in Modern Greek Fiction
Anastasia Natsina — The Individual within Multiple Worlds in Greek Short Stories since 1974
Dimitris Paivanas — Ideology’s Discontents in Thanassis Valtinos’s Data from the Decade of the Sixties
Angela Kastrinaki — The Portrait of the Artist in the Late Twentieth Century
Argiro Mantoglou — Angels in the Storm: The Portrait of the Woman Writer in Three Contemporary Novels by Women
Konstantinos Kosmas — The Disunification of the Nation: Contemporary Greek Historical Fiction and Collective Identities