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Genres of Recollection

Archival Poetics and Modern Greece

Genres of Recollection
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Genres of Recollection brings to life the social and textual worlds in which the representation of contemporary Greek historical experience has been passionately debated. Building on contemporary research in history and anthropology concerning the social production of the past, this study considers how people who admit they are 'not historians' - from a housewife to an ward-winning novelist, a farmer to an aristocratic lady of leisure - mediate their personal, family and community histories by compiling archives and writing diverse genres of historical texts. 'Re-collecting' the recent Greek past of labour migration, refugee flight, civil war and urbanization is shown to powerfully shape contemporary social relations and political culture, but also to open a captivating field for Imagining redemptive futures.
Palgrave Macmillan; August 2006
318 pages; ISBN 9781403981462
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9781403981462
9781403961051
1403981469