{"product_id":"kassandra-and-the-censors-greek-poetry-since-1967-paperback","title":"Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry Since 1967 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Van Dyck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren Van Dyck directed Hellenic Studies in the Classics Department at Columbia (1988-2016) and has also been an active member of the Institute for Research on Women, Sexuality and Gender (IRWSG), the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS), the European Institute and the Istanbul Global Center. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eKassandra and the Censors\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Scattered Papers of Penelope\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAusterity Measures: The New Greek Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e that won the London Hellenic Prize (2016). Her essays, translations and poetry have appeared in\u003ci\u003e LARB\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e World Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Tender\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 9.04 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 23, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131388530823,"sku":"9780801499937","price":71.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d0dbc684d4d3f5fc277b3c5b7baf98fa.webp?v=1732618586","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/kassandra-and-the-censors-greek-poetry-since-1967-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}