Remembering absence : the sense of life in island Greece

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Nicolas Argenti considers the citizens of the Greek island of Chios and how they reshape memories of a traumatic past to form new ways of coping with moments of contemporary national crisis.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Argenti, Nicolas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
Series:New anthropologies of Europe.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Collective memory > Greece > Chios.
Psychic trauma > Greece > Chios.
HISTORY > Europe > Greece.
Collective memory
Manners and customs
Psychic trauma
Traumatisme psychique > Grece > Chio (Grece)
Memoire collective > Grece > Chio (Grece)
Chios (Greece) > Social life and customs.
Chios (Greece : Municipality) > History > 19th century.
Chios (Greece : Municipality) > History > 20th century.
Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) > History.
Chio (Grèce : Île) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Chio (Grèce : Île) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Égée, Îles de la mer (Grèce et Turquie) > Histoire.
Mediterranean Region > Aegean Islands
Greece > Chios (Municipality)
Greece > Chios
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Note on transliteration. Remembering absence
  • The light of certain stars: from memory to historical simultaneity
  • Full fathom five: on the temporal dimensions of exodus
  • Crisis and famine: sovereign debt, political violence, and Oneiric revelation
  • The love of flowers: catastrophe in the Aegean
  • Emptiness of Anavatos: exile, commemoration, and melancholia
  • Ruins of Kidianta: dwelling, oblivion, and resurrection
  • The Abbess of Nea Moni: the contemporaneity of divine vision
  • Life in the tomb: rocket warriors of Vrontados
  • The darksome line: Aegean temporality. Reference list
  • Index.

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