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). Through responses to censorship -- including those of
the dictator, the Nobel Laureate poet George Seferis, and the
younger generation of poets -- she shows how women poets use
strategies which, although initiated in response to the dictator's
press law, prove useful in articulating a feminist critique. In
poetry 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 and also how
the resistance to clarity in this poetry trains readers to rethink
cultural practices. Van Dyck's comparative consideration of
American beat poetry, Christa Wolf's "Cassandra", Poe's "The
Purloined Letter", or Bakhtin's theory of the dialogical underscore
the complexities of transnational exchange. 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.
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