Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Diasporic and Transnational Identities in Selected Short Stories of Greek Australian Writers 1901-2001
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'This thesis examines the notions of Greek identity in Australia through the analysis of selected short stories written in the Greek language by Greek Australian writers. Moreover, it focuses on the evolution of Greek identity in the diaspora and specifically in Australia during the twentieth century, whilst taking into consideration the recent phenomenon of transnationalism. The short story has been considered in the present study as the most representative and suitable type of genre to examine the concept of identity. As such, it is through the short story that different themes are explored, revealing aspects of Greek community-life in Australia, with an emphasis on identity issues and dilemmas. Attention is drawn to the empowering presence of a wide range of symbols and indicators, revealing an identity which is rich and complex in socio-cultural, historical and linguistic characteristics, relating to the Greek immigrant experience in the diaspora. The thesis concludes that there has been a shift from the original rigid migrant identity of the early twentieth century to a more flexible, tolerant, adapted and globally oriented identity.' Andrea Garivaldis

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  • Master of Arts, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT University, Melbourne.
  • Dedication: This thesis is dedicated to my three wonderful children, Filia, Gabriel and Yanni.
  • Epigraph: ... it is from those who have suffered the sentence of history - subjugation, domination, diaspora, displacement - that we learn our most enduring lessons. Homi K. Bhabha, Redrawing the Boundaries (1992)
  • Epigraph: Oh! There is no spiritual refuge, no homeland for the man who lives in a foreign land... Theodore Georgantopoulos, O Xenos (1976)
  • The foreign land had sown on our backs enormous trees which took deep root into our minds. We kept on breathing secretly, our dreams we enticed nostalgically, forever murmuring the sounds of orphanhood. Andrea Garivaldis, Shipwreck (1994)

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