Kassandra and the Censors : : Greek Poetry since 1967 / / Karen Van Dyck.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Van Dyck, Karen,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Reading Women Writing
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 10 halftones

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, the poetry of the Nobel Laureate George Seferis, and the younger generation of poets—she shows how women poets use strategies which, although initiated in response to the regime's press law, prove useful in articulating a feminist critique. In poetry collections 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.As much a literary analysis of culture as a cultural analysis of literature, her book explores how censorship, consumerism, and feminism influence contemporary Greek women's poetry as well as how the resistance to clarity in this poetry trains readers to rethink these cultural practices. Only with greater attention to the cultural and formal specificity of writing, Van Dyck argues, is it possible to theorize the lessons of censorship and women's writing.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction -- 1. Power, Language, and the Discourses of the Dictatorship -- 2. Poetry, Politics, and the Generation of the 19705 -- 3. Women's Writing and the Sexual Politics of Censorship -- 4. Rhea Galanaki's The Cake and the Deferred Delivery -- 5. Jenny Mastoraki's Tales of the Deep and the Purloined Letter -- 6. Maria Laina's Hers and the Unreciprocated Look -- Epilogue -- Works Consulted -- Index