Title Remembering absence : the sense of life in island Greece / Nicolas Argenti

Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages) : illustrations Series New anthropologies of Europe New anthropologies of Europe. Contents Preface -- Note on transliteration. Remembering absence -- The light of certain stars: from memory to historical simultaneity -- Full fathom five: on the temporal dimensions of exodus -- Crisis and famine: sovereign debt, political violence, and Oneiric revelation -- The love of flowers: catastrophe in the Aegean -- Emptiness of Anavatos: exile, commemoration, and melancholia -- Ruins of Kidianta: dwelling, oblivion, and resurrection -- The Abbess of Nea Moni: the contemporaneity of divine vision -- Life in the tomb: rocket warriors of Vrontados -- The darksome line: Aegean temporality. Reference list -- Index Summary Nicolas Argenti considers the citizens of the Greek island of Chios and how they reshape memories of a traumatic past to form new ways of coping with moments of contemporary national crisis "Drawing on research conducted on Chios during the sovereign debt crisis that struck Greece in 2010, Nicolas Argenti follows the lives of individuals who symbolize the transformations affecting this Aegean island. As witnesses to the crisis speak of their lives, however, their current anxieties and frustrations are expressed in terms of past crises that have shaped the dramatic history of Chios, including the German occupation in World War II and the ensuing famine, the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey of 1922-23, and the Massacres of 1822 that decimated the island at the outset of the Greek War of Independence. The complex temporality that emerges in these accounts is ensconced in a cultural context of commemorative ritual, ecstatic visions, an annual rocket war, and other embodied practices that contribute to forms of memory production that question the assumptions of the trauma discourse, revealing the islanders of Chios to be active in forging their place in time in a manner that blurs the boundaries between historiography, memory, religion, and myth."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2019) Subject Collective memory -- Greece -- Chios Psychic trauma -- Greece -- Chios HISTORY -- Europe -- Greece. Collective memory Manners and customs Psychic trauma Traumatisme psychique -- Grece -- Chio (Grece) Memoire collective -- Grece -- Chio (Grece) SUBJECT Chios (Greece) -- Social life and customs Chios (Greece : Municipality) -- History -- 19th century Chios (Greece : Municipality) -- History -- 20th century Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) -- History Subject Mediterranean Region -- Aegean Islands Greece -- Chios (Municipality) Greece -- Chios Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780253040671 0253040671 9780253040695 0253040698

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