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This book deals with historical consciousness and its artistic
expressions in contemporary Greece since 1989 from the point of
view that contemporary Greeks have been faced with the
contradictions between on the one hand a glorious, world-famous yet
distant past and, on the other, a traumatic contemporary history of
wars, expulsions, civil strife and political and economic crises.
Such clashes of imaginary identifications and collective traumas
call for interpretations not only from historians but also from
artists and storytellers. Therefore, the chapters in this volume
explore the ways in which sensitive and creative perspectives of
art approach and appropriate history in Greece. Through a rich
collection of analytical case studies and creative reflections on
Greece's past, present, and future this volume presents the reader
with the ways a set of contemporary Greek storytellers in different
genres have incorporated previously under-explored or little-known
themes, events, and epochs in modern Greek history showing how the
past, by being interpreted and represented in the present, can
teach us a lot about contemporary Greek society. The themes that
form the point of departure for the stories told or retold cover
various significant components of Greek history and culture such as
ancient myths, the Ottoman period, the Greek War of Independence
and the Greek Civil War, but also less prominent or known aspects
of Greek history such as the Greek Enlightenment, the long and
tragic history of Greek Jewry, and migration to and from Greece.
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