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Remembering Absence - The Sense of Life in Island Greece (Hardcover)
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Remembering Absence - The Sense of Life in Island Greece (Hardcover)
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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. A member of the
Chiot diaspora, Argenti makes use of unpublished correspondence
from survivors of the Massacres of 1822 and their descendants and
reflects on oral family histories and silences in which the island
represents an enigmatic but palpable absence. As he explores the
ways in which a body of memory and a cultural experience of
temporality came to be dislocated and shared between two
populations, his return to Chios marks an encounter in which the
traditional roles of ethnographer and participant come to be
dispersed and intertwined.
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