Greeks in English-Speaking Countries

Greeks in English-Speaking Countries

Culture, Identity, Politics

Christos P. Ioannides, editor

Series/ Number Hellenism: Ancient, Mediaeval, Modern, 24

Pages/Illustr. 600 p.

Clothbound

Status: In Stock

ISBN: 0-89241-568-1

The book takes its title from a pioneering conference that was organized by the Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism, co-sponsored by the Hellenic Studies Forum, Melbourne, Australia, in cooperation with the Hellenic Studies Institute of South Australia, Adelaide and the Humanities Department of California State University, Sacramento. It was held in Sacramento in 1994. The essays gathered in this volume cover a broad range of subjects and are grouped under the following themes: Greek ethnicity and culture in English-speaking countries; Hellenism and Greek Orthodoxy in the diaspora—toward convergence or divergence; education and Greek identity; Greek diaspora women in the 1990s—beyond the kale noikokyra (good housewife) image; linkages between the diaspora and Greece; the sense of "Greekness" in literature and the arts among the diaspora Greeks; politics and the diaspora.The latter category covers the following sub-themes: the Cyprus and Macedonian issues and diaspora political activism; Greeks in politics in the U. S. and Australia.

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