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Author Van Dyck, Karen

Title Kassandra and the censors : Greek poetry since 1967 / Karen Van Dyck
Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 305 pages) : illustrations
Series Reading women writing
Reading women writing.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction -- 1. Power, Language, and the Discourses of the Dictatorship -- 2. Poetry, Politics, and the Generation of the 19705 -- 3. Women's Writing and the Sexual Politics of Censorship -- 4. Rhea Galanaki's The Cake and the Deferred Delivery -- 5. Jenny Mastoraki's Tales of the Deep and the Purloined Letter -- 6. Maria Laina's Hers and the Unreciprocated Look -- Epilogue -- Works Consulted -- Index
Summary In this pioneering study of contemporary Greek poetry, Karen Van Dyck investigates modernist and postmodernist poetics at the edge of Europe. She traces the influential role of Greek women writers back to the sexual politics of censorship under the dictatorship (1967-1974). Reading the effects of censorship-in cartoons, the dictator's speeches, the poetry of the Nobel Laureate George Seferis, and the younger generation of poets-she shows how women poets use strategies which, although initiated in response to the regime's press law, prove useful in articulating a feminist critique. In poetry collections by Rhea Galanaki, Jenny Mastoraki and Maria Laina, among others, she analyzes how the censors'tactics for stabilizing signification are redeployed to disrupt fixed meanings and gender roles. As much a literary analysis of culture as a cultural analysis of literature, her book explores how censorship, consumerism, and feminism influence contemporary Greek women's poetry as well as how the resistance to clarity in this poetry trains readers to rethink these cultural practices. Only with greater attention to the cultural and formal specificity of writing, Van Dyck argues, is it possible to theorize the lessons of censorship and women's writing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-298) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Greek poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Greek poetry, Modern -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- Greece -- History -- 20th century
Women in literature.
Politics and literature -- Greece -- History -- 20th century
Women -- Greece -- Athens -- Politics and government
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
Greek poetry, Modern
Greek poetry, Modern -- Women authors
Politics and government
Politics and literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
Women -- Politics and government
Lyrik
Neugriechisch
Aufsatzsammlung
Gedichten.
Nieuwgrieks.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Censuur.
Geschichte 1967-1998.
SUBJECT Greece -- Politics and government -- 1967-1974. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057124
Greece -- Politics and government -- 1974- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057125
Subject Greece
Greece -- Athens
Neugriechisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501717222
1501717227