Description
| Product ID: | 9781839991714 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Anthem Studies in Global English Literatures |
| Title: | Reading Greek Australian Literature through the Paramythi |
| Subtitle: | Bridging Multiculturalism with World Literature |
| Authors: | Author: Anna Dimitriou |
| Page Count: | 210 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: general, Cultural studies, Cultural studies, Modern Greek |
| Description: | This book explores Greek Australian literature through its paramythic tropes and focuses on reading it as a bridge between multiculturalism and world literature. This is a comparative textual analysis of a body of relatively neglected works by Greek Australian writers Dimitris Tsaloumas, Antigone Kefala, Stylianos Charkianakis, Dean Kalimnios, Christos Tsiolkas, Fotini Epanomitis and Helen Koukoutsis. The focus is on reading their texts as a bridge between multiculturalism and world literature given each writer identifies in various ways with peripheral cosmopolitanism as they merge high-brow literary forms with the quotidian paramythi, or the storytelling oral tradition. The different ways they do this registers the writers’ ambivalent relationship with their origins through their transculturally mediated expression. Discovering new possibilities in literary texts which have oral traces becomes a productive way to look at the question of translatability as posed by scholars of multiculturalism and world literature, such as Sneja Gunew, Emily Apter and Pheng Cheah. |
| Imprint Name: | Anthem Press |
| Publisher Name: | Anthem Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-06-04 |