Genres of Recollection: Archival Poetics and Modern Greece

by Penelope Papalias, Penelope Papailias, P. Papalias

Book Overview

This innovative ethnography of history-in-the-making explores some of the most traumatic and wrenching experiences of twentieth-century modern Greece: refugee crisis, transatlantic migration, civil war, urbanization, and industrialization. Hardly a survey, Genres of Recollection asks how the very categories of historical practice and knowledge-the witness, the archive, the event, and, of course, the historian and historiography themselves-have been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403961069
• ISBN13: 9781403961068
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"