Front cover image for Kassandra and the censors Greek poetry since 1967

Kassandra and the censors Greek poetry since 1967

Karen Van Dyck (Author)
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). Reading the effects of censorship—in cartoons, the dictator's speeches...
Print Book, English, 1998
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1998
305 p. ill.
9780801499937, 0801499933
1050067629
AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationIntroduction1. Power, Language, and the Discourses of the DictatorshipGreece As a Patient in a CastCensorship and the Question of SilenceDiscursive Styles and Political PracticesTelling the Truth in Eighteen TextsDionysis Savvopoulos's Plastic Flag2. Poetry, Politics, and the Generation of the 1970sThe So-Called Generation of the 1970sLefteris Poulios's Political BeatVasilis Steriadis's Poetry Strip3. Women's Writing and the Sexual Politics of CensorshipThe Figure of Woman under the DictatorshipKyr's LysistrataKassandra's Wolf and Wolf's CassandraThe Social Text of Women's Poetry after the DictatorshipSexual Politics and Poetic Form4. Rhea Galanaki's The Cake and the Deferred DeliveryFiguring (Out) WomanThe Cake is PinkThe Sexual Politics of MimesisWriting As a Pregnant Woman5. Jenny Mastoraki's Tales of the Deep and the Purloined LetterThe Place Where Terrible Things HappenWriting the DreamworkThe Exhibition of ProhibitionThe Purloined Letter and the Woman Reader6. Maria Laina's Hers and the Unreciprocated LookThe Look of CensorshipToward an Alternative Grammar of SelfFinding the Ground of Love ElsewhereEpilogueWorks ConsultedIndex
Met lit. opg