Ambivalent Greece

Leontis, Artemis

doi:10.1353/mgs.1997.0004

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“…the praises for the values and virtues of peasant life and customs that one finds in the writings of other nationalist literatures (Obradović 1953, Wilson 1986) 8 . But perhaps this is not so very surprising when one considers the abuse heaped upon Greeks by European travelers of his time (Leontis 1997). There were of course two ‘Greeces’ circulating within the Western imagination of his era: the hallowed world of ancient heroes and sages, and its contemporary successor, that ‘hideous spectacle’ of lawlessness and decay.…”

Section: Koraes and The Hellenesmentioning

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Idealisations of self and nation in the thought of diaspora intellectuals

Kostantaras¹

2008

Nations and Nationalism

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Diaspora intellectuals have often played prominent roles in the formation of national revival and independence movements. This article explores the factors that may help to explain this phenomenon through a survey of the literary responses of intellectuals from Eastern Europe, colonial Africa and Asia to their experiences in the capital cities of Western Europe over the early modern and modern era. These reactions, expressed through the writings of influential figures such as Adamantios Koraes and Leopold Senghor, reveal, in their thematic convergence, aspects of such encounters that have remained consistent over time. Portrayed throughout are the emotional hardships of talented individuals who found their status suddenly conditioned by the ideas associated with their places of origin in the host society's imagination. Unwilling, for reasons explored below, to submit passively to these affronts, the individuals studied here threw their energies instead into ambitious projects of national re-imagination and rehabilitation. The article makes use, finally, of the rather visceral quality of the literature surrounding the experience of diaspora intellectuals to account for the complex weave of modern and traditional elements often exhibited in the new idealisations of self and nation that appear throughout their works.

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Idealisations of self and nation in the thought of diaspora intellectuals

Kostantaras¹

2008

Nations and Nationalism

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“…Archaeological treasures and antiquities have worked as powerful emotive icons, often charged with religious connotations, like the 'sacred rock', the Athenian Acropolis, influencing imaginings of the topos of the modern Greek nation by both Greeks and foreigners (Hamilakis and Yalouri, 1999). References to topos, and its importance in the understanding of neo-Hellenism, have also been discussed with a focus on the intersection between logos and topos, between literature and geography (Leontis, 1997(Leontis, , 1998, and, more specifically, with reference to the group of artists and men of letters, 'the generation of the 1930s', who defined Greekness and nation as fluid and evolving concepts relating to race, space, tradition, biology and progress (Tziovas, 2001(Tziovas, , 2006.…”

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Constructing national identity: Depictions of national and international space in Second World War Greek popular iconography

Efstathiadou

2015

Journal of European Studies

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This paper discusses artistic representations of space in relation to constructions of national identity in Second World War popular icons (λαϊκές εικόνες). Due to their origins, name and production by private initiative rather than state directive, popular icons were not directly associated with propaganda or seen as means of state ideology. This paper argues that they are valuable primary sources that need to be studied in their own right, as carriers of official ideas in wartime that can contribute to understandings of cultural belonging in modern Greece, especially in reference to representations of space.

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Disorienting Rhythms: Gypsyness, “Authenticity” and Place on the Greek–Albanian Border

Theodosiou¹

2007

History and Anthropology

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Ambivalent Greece

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Idealisations of self and nation in the thought of diaspora intellectuals

Idealisations of self and nation in the thought of diaspora intellectuals

Constructing national identity: Depictions of national and international space in Second World War Greek popular iconography

Disorienting Rhythms: Gypsyness, “Authenticity” and Place on the Greek–Albanian Border

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