Kassandra and the Censors - Greek Poetry since 1967

In this study of contemporary Greek poetry, the author 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.

Summary

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...

Product details

• Authors: Karen Van Dyck, Karen van van Dyck, Karen Van Dyck, Karen van Van Dyck
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.1997
• EAN: 9780801499937
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-9993-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Reading Women Writing; Reading Women Writing
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies