My Mother's Sin and Other Stories

Decavalles, Andonis; Vizyenos, Georgios; Wyatt, William F.

doi:10.2307/40144979

World Literature Today

1989

DOI: 10.2307/40144979

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My Mother's Sin and Other Stories

Andonis Decavalles¹,

Georgios Vizyenos²,

William F. Wyatt³

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Beyond the Acropolis: Rethinking Neohellenism

Tziovas¹

2001

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The aims of this paper are to examine and rethink various approaches, old and new, taken by Western scholars toward Neohellenism and to put forward a new approach that highlights the complexities and richness of Greek culture. I first outline the two dominant approaches to modern Greek culture in the West, which can be defined by their reliance on the notions of continuity and binary logic respectively. I then proceed by suggesting a new approach to Neohellenism based on the notions of cultural hybridity and dialogue, illustrated with reference to painters such as Kontoglou and Engonopoulos, and writers such as Solomos, Vizyenos, Cavafy, and Kazantzakis who best represent this dialogic conception of Neohellenism. Ultimately I hope that the presentation and study of Neohellensim as a rich syncretic phenomenon will make it more attractive to scholars and render easy classifications less acceptable.

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Beyond the Acropolis: Rethinking Neohellenism

Tziovas¹

2001

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Altered States: Space, Gender, and the (Un)making of Identity in the Short Stories of Georgios M. Vizyenos

Barbeito¹

1995

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Georgios M. Vizyenos's short stories were written during the mid to late 1880s, a period that saw the birth of demoticism and increasing interest in folkloric movements, as well as an investment in self-representation and the establishment of a coherent national identity. The Athenian critical establishment categorized Vizyenos as a Tourkomerítis , a term that constructs identity by contrasting geographic location and nationality. The discomfiture reflected in this epithet may also issue from the way Vizyenos's stories problematize the notion of an inherent, homogeneous, and unitary concept of identity: they complicate spatial categories and relations and result in a concomitant reworking of gender roles, national identifications, and genres.

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Gender, Narrative Modes, and the Procreative Cycle: The Pregnant Word in Vizyenos

Syrimis¹

1995

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In Vizyenos's stories, femininity and orality constitute a conceptual unit, a world view, and a voice in direct contradistinction to masculinity and literariness. Vizyenos's exploration and problematization of the preceding categories suggests a movement from the oral to the written, as well as from the feminine to the masculine. Functioning at the junction of these two categories is a dissident and dissonant gender-crossing that in Vizyenos's texts appears at the narrative and meta-narrative levels, articulates the labor of transition, and ultimately engenders the texts. Although this movement may initially be conceived in diachronic or teleological terms, Vizyenos's texts offer alternative identities (linguistic, gender, and national) that are best conceived as modes of being rather than as essential or inevitable stages in personal, social, or literary development.

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Beyond the Acropolis: Rethinking Neohellenism

Beyond the Acropolis: Rethinking Neohellenism

Altered States: Space, Gender, and the (Un)making of Identity in the Short Stories of Georgios M. Vizyenos

Gender, Narrative Modes, and the Procreative Cycle: The Pregnant Word in Vizyenos

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