Reading Greek Australian Literature Through the Paramythi - Bridging Multiculturalism With World Literature

This book explores Greek Australian literature through its paramythic tropes and focuses on reading it as a bridge between multiculturalism and world literature.

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Greek Australian Literature: Between Multiculturalism and World Literature; 2. Diasporic Transformations of the Oral Traditional Paramythi; 3. Dimitris Tsaloumas: Outspoken Visionary Poet or Disillusioned Exile?; 4. Antigone Kefala: Writing against Aphanisis; 5. Fotini Epanomitis's The Mule's Foal: A Literature of Transgression; 6. Christos Tsiolkas's Dead Europe: A Polyphonic Tale of Protest; 7. Helen Koukoutsis's Cicada Chimes: Shifting between Worlds; 8. Stylianos Charkianakis: Paramythic Transformations through Poetry; 9. Dean kalimnios: Religious Surrealist or Proud Neo-Hellenic Scholar?; 10. Conclusion: Towards a Rereading of Greek Australian Literature; Index

About the author

Dr. Anna Dimitriou gained a PhD in Literary Studies in 2014 from Deakin University and is currently teaching in the Dean's School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University.

Summary

This book explores Greek Australian literature through its paramythic tropes and focuses on reading it as a bridge between multiculturalism and world literature.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Dimitriou
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781839991714
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-171-4
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Anthem Studies in Global English Literatures
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, Australia, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: general, Modern Greek, Gunew says; 'share a world'