"In this book, more than forty Greek-Australian women have composed, through poems and stories, a migrant tale of hardship, survival and joy: a truly Australian tale, a truly Greek tale, as both countries have given and taken from each other through migration. Each writer contributes, in her own voice and style, a part of this story which begins with the first generation of migrants, who had to endure life away from ‘home’, and is followed by those of their offspring who live in, or between, two worlds and experience the conflicts, as well as the joys, of a dual existence. Contributors range from the unpublished, to those previously published only in Greek, to others who are established names in 'Australian' literature. They are all here side by side, telling their part of the story. The editors of this book have provided a Greek-Australian story, fittingly, in bilingual form."
Taken from: http://owlpublishing.com.au/re-telling-the-tale.html
Epigraph:
We travelled in old ships...
Tαξίδεψαν σε παλιά χαράβιά...
Gynaikes ton Antipodon : Ellinoafstralezika Diigimata
Helen Nickas
(editor),
Brighton
:
Owl Publishing
,
2008
Z1734819
2008
anthology
poetry
'This anthology contains translations into Greek of twelve short stories originally published in the anthologies Re-telling the Tale (1994) and Mothers from the Edge (2006). These stories by first- and second-generation Greek-Australian women writers depict the female migrant experience in all its manifestations and in a variety of styles and forms. The twelve writers included are: Jeanna Vithoulkas, Antigone Kefala, Venetia Kefalianou, Angela Costi, Despina Michael, Eleni Nika, Toula Nikolaou, Zeny Dorati-Giles, Konstandina Dounis, Vasiliki Nihas, Vicky Tsaconas, Eugenia Tsoulis.' (Publisher's blurb)
