Voices of the Lost Children of Greece
Title | Voices of the Lost Children of Greece PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Cardaras |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-01-10 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9781839988042 |
Voices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Never before has this group of adoptees come together to write their stories and share their closely held feelings. While many of the adoptees have similar experiences and while they may share some common thoughts about their adoptions, their stories are vastly different, some harrowing, others remarkable. The collection will illustrate the impact of adoption itself over years, no matter if children were displaced from their parents and country as infants or as youngsters. The book will shed light on adoption from many disciplinary angles, including sociological, psychological and anthropological. It will also put these adoptions into a larger historical context. The book is further enhanced by Greek-born adoptee, academic, poet and writer, Dr. Andrew Mossin, who writes the Foreword; by Dr. Gonda Van Steen, a preeminent modern Greek scholar, who pens the first chapter about the history of such adoptions; and in the final chapter, by Dr. Eirini Papadaki, who has written extensively about the women of Greece and adoption, to bring readers a current assessment of adoption practices in Greece today.
Voices of the Lost Children of Greece
Title | Voices of the Lost Children of Greece PDF eBook |
Author | EDT Cardaras |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece
Title | Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece PDF eBook |
Author | Gonda Van Steen |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2021-07-12 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0472038818 |
Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period
Voices of Modern Greece
Title | Voices of Modern Greece PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2021-08-10 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0691234248 |
This anthology is composed of recently revised translations selected from the five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard during the past two decades. The poems chosen are those that translate most successfully into English and that are also representative of the best work of the original poets. C. P. Cavafy and Angelos Sikelianos are major poets of the first half of the twentieth century. George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, who followed them, both won the Nobel Prize in literature. Nikos Gatsos was a very popular translator, lyricist, and critic.
The Whispering Voice of Smyrna
Title | The Whispering Voice of Smyrna PDF eBook |
Author | Niki Karavasilis |
Publisher | Dorrance Publishing |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2010-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1434952975 |
Ripped at the Root
Title | Ripped at the Root PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Cardaras |
Publisher | Spuyten Duyvil |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2021-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781956005271 |
In the midst of the Cold War, these children-many the sons and daughters of Greek leftists-became pawns in the global battle for democracy. In this powerful, un-put-downable narrative, Cardaras gives voice not only to Greek adoptees, but to international adoptees everywhere as they navigate returns to their birthplaces; their birth relatives; and reclaim their stolen origin stories.
Voices at Work
Title | Voices at Work PDF eBook |
Author | Andromache Karanika |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 142141256X |
The songs of working women are reflected in Greek poetry and poetics. In ancient Greece, women's daily lives were occupied by various forms of labor. These experiences of work have largely been forgotten. Andromache Karanika has examined Greek poetry for depictions of women working and has discovered evidence of their lamentations and work songs. Voices at Work explores the complex relationships between ancient Greek poetry, the female poetic voice, and the practices and rituals surrounding women’s labor in the ancient world. The poetic voice is closely tied to women’s domestic and agricultural labor. Weaving, for example, was both a common form of female labor and a practice referred to for understanding the craft of poetry. Textile and agricultural production involved storytelling, singing, and poetry. Everyday labor employed—beyond its socioeconomic function—the power of poetic creation. Karanika starts with the assumption that there are certain forms of poetic expression and performance in the ancient world which are distinctively female. She considers these to be markers of a female “voice” in ancient Greek poetry and presents a number of case studies: Calypso and Circe sing while they weave; in Odyssey 6 a washing scene captures female performances. Both of these instances are examples of the female voice filtered into the fabric of the epic. Karanika brings to the surface the words of women who informed the oral tradition from which Greek epic poetry emerged. In other words, she gives a voice to silence.