Memories of Asia Minor in Contemporary Greek Culture

The Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) in Asia Minor and the Population Exchange that followed led to the forced displacement of more than 1.5 million people who became entangled in the nation-building processes of both Greece and Turkey. This book examines the memories that shaped Asia Minor refugee identity, focusing on the ways in which these memories continue to reverberate in contemporary Greek culture. It explores how memories of Asia Minor frame wider social debates, foster affective alliances, inform different notions of belonging and provide a toolkit for addressing contemporary concerns. Taking the reader across a wide range of cultural workshistory textbooks, comics, theatre, documentary and fiction films, news footage and photographythe book shows how these works have become means for individuals and communities to contribute to the process of history-making. While keeping its focus on present-day Greece, Memories of Asia Minor joins wider global debates over contested pasts, legacies of war and refugeehood.

Offers a fresh contemporary perspective on the cultural legacies of the Greco-Turkish War Develops an analytical framework that maps everyday encounters with memories onto mnemonic itineraries of cultural works Shows how cultural memories of Asia Minor intertwine with present-day ideologies and are used to respond to contemporary concerns

Autorentext

Kristina Gedgaudaite is a Mary Seeger O'Boyle Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, USA. She has previously held positions at the University of Oxford, UK and the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is one of the coordinators of the cultural analysis network Greek Studies Now.

Inhalt
Chapter 1:Introduction.- Chapter 2: Affective Alliances in Greek History Wars.- Chapter 3: Family Frames through the Mirror Maze of Soloup's Aivali.- Chapter 4: Portable Memory: Smyrna in Your Pocket.- Chapter 5: The Futures of Memory Through the Frames of Precarious Present.- Chapter 6 - Conclusions.