Gerasimus Katsan is associate professor and coordinator of the Modern Greek Program at Queens College, City University of New York.Trine Stauning Willert is honorary research fellow at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham.

With contributions from scholars, fiction writers, and filmmakers, this is a rich volume exploring iconoclastic treatments of the past together with some neglected legacies. Focusing on post-classical Greece, it offers thought-provoking papers on a variety of genres (narratives, poems, films, and plays) and invites readers to engage critically with silences and traumatic memories. It analyzes the uses of history in different cultural forms and contexts after 1989, which serves as a key date, and offers a useful prism through which to view contemporary Greece.

• Introduction: History in the Storyteller’s ToolboxTrine Stauning Willert and Gerasimus KatsanPart OnePopularizing Neglected Pasts1.Getting Intimate with the Unwanted Past: New Approaches to the Ottoman Legacy in Greek FictionTrine Stauning Willert2.Public History and the Revival of Repressed Sephardic Heritage in ThessalonikiKostis KornetisConstructing Past, Present, and Future in Migrant Fiction3.Poetry Traversing History: Narrating Louis Tikas in David Mason’s Ludlow Yiorgos Anagnostou4.First-Person Past, Second-Person Present, and the Future of Now: Gazmend Kapllani’s Transnational, Interpersonal TimescapesKaren EmmerichTrauma, Sentimentality, and Crisis in Literature 5.To Remember and Forgive: The Afterlives of Queen Frederica’s Childtowns in Contemporary Greek FictionVassiliki Kaisidou6. Fashioning a European Past for the National Self: Nikos Themelis’ For Some CompanionshipMaria Akritidou7.The Anxieties of History: Greek Fiction in CrisisGerasimus Katsan Satire and Nostalgia in Popular Culture8.The Use of History for the Denunciation of the Present: Lena Kitsopoulou’s Athanasios Diakos - The ComebackConstantina Georgiadi9.Television Fiction as a Window into a Nation’s Past: The Arbitraries and the Concept of the Neohellene Georgia Aitaki 10.Ancient Greek Mythology and the Culture of the Neohellene in Animated TV SatireJessica Kourniakti 11.Childhood Memories, Family Life, Nostalgia and Historical Trauma in Contemporary Greek Cinema Maria ChalkouPart TwoPrefaceA Visual Journey Through the Lens12.Witnesses for the Future: The Past Reflected in the Despair of the Present Sonia Liza Kenterman13.Still, Short, Cut: The Early Films of Sonia Liza KentermanCharles LockA Literary Echo of the Refugee Crisis 14.What Are They After, Our Souls, Off the Coast of Lesbos?: Reflections on Elias Venezis’ “The Isle of Lios” (1928)Patricia Felisa Barbeito and Vangelis CalotychosHistory from the Storyteller’s Viewpoint15.“Four Hundred Pleats” Amanda Michalopoulou16.1948–2010: Before and After “Think Before You Learn”Sophia Nikolaidou

Gerasimus Katsan is associate professor and coordinator of the Modern Greek Program at Queens College, City University of New York.Trine Stauning Willert is honorary research fellow at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham.

With contributions from scholars, fiction writers, and filmmakers, this is a rich volume exploring iconoclastic treatments of the past together with some neglected legacies. Focusing on post-classical Greece, it offers thought-provoking papers on a variety of genres (narratives, poems, films, and plays) and invites readers to engage critically with silences and traumatic memories. It analyzes the uses of history in different cultural forms and contexts after 1989, which serves as a key date, and offers a useful prism through which to view contemporary Greece.

• Introduction: History in the Storyteller’s ToolboxTrine Stauning Willert and Gerasimus KatsanPart OnePopularizing Neglected Pasts1.Getting Intimate with the Unwanted Past: New Approaches to the Ottoman Legacy in Greek FictionTrine Stauning Willert2.Public History and the Revival of Repressed Sephardic Heritage in ThessalonikiKostis KornetisConstructing Past, Present, and Future in Migrant Fiction3.Poetry Traversing History: Narrating Louis Tikas in David Mason’s Ludlow Yiorgos Anagnostou4.First-Person Past, Second-Person Present, and the Future of Now: Gazmend Kapllani’s Transnational, Interpersonal TimescapesKaren EmmerichTrauma, Sentimentality, and Crisis in Literature 5.To Remember and Forgive: The Afterlives of Queen Frederica’s Childtowns in Contemporary Greek FictionVassiliki Kaisidou6. Fashioning a European Past for the National Self: Nikos Themelis’ For Some CompanionshipMaria Akritidou7.The Anxieties of History: Greek Fiction in CrisisGerasimus Katsan Satire and Nostalgia in Popular Culture8.The Use of History for the Denunciation of the Present: Lena Kitsopoulou’s Athanasios Diakos - The ComebackConstantina Georgiadi9.Television Fiction as a Window into a Nation’s Past: The Arbitraries and the Concept of the Neohellene Georgia Aitaki 10.Ancient Greek Mythology and the Culture of the Neohellene in Animated TV SatireJessica Kourniakti 11.Childhood Memories, Family Life, Nostalgia and Historical Trauma in Contemporary Greek Cinema Maria ChalkouPart TwoPrefaceA Visual Journey Through the Lens12.Witnesses for the Future: The Past Reflected in the Despair of the Present Sonia Liza Kenterman13.Still, Short, Cut: The Early Films of Sonia Liza KentermanCharles LockA Literary Echo of the Refugee Crisis 14.What Are They After, Our Souls, Off the Coast of Lesbos?: Reflections on Elias Venezis’ “The Isle of Lios” (1928)Patricia Felisa Barbeito and Vangelis CalotychosHistory from the Storyteller’s Viewpoint15.“Four Hundred Pleats” Amanda Michalopoulou16.1948–2010: Before and After “Think Before You Learn”Sophia Nikolaidou

Gerasimus Katsan is associate professor and coordinator of the Modern Greek Program at Queens College, City University of New York.Trine Stauning Willert is honorary research fellow at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham.

With contributions from scholars, fiction writers, and filmmakers, this is a rich volume exploring iconoclastic treatments of the past together with some neglected legacies. Focusing on post-classical Greece, it offers thought-provoking papers on a variety of genres (narratives, poems, films, and plays) and invites readers to engage critically with silences and traumatic memories. It analyzes the uses of history in different cultural forms and contexts after 1989, which serves as a key date, and offers a useful prism through which to view contemporary Greece.

• Introduction: History in the Storyteller’s ToolboxTrine Stauning Willert and Gerasimus KatsanPart OnePopularizing Neglected Pasts1.Getting Intimate with the Unwanted Past: New Approaches to the Ottoman Legacy in Greek FictionTrine Stauning Willert2.Public History and the Revival of Repressed Sephardic Heritage in ThessalonikiKostis KornetisConstructing Past, Present, and Future in Migrant Fiction3.Poetry Traversing History: Narrating Louis Tikas in David Mason’s Ludlow Yiorgos Anagnostou4.First-Person Past, Second-Person Present, and the Future of Now: Gazmend Kapllani’s Transnational, Interpersonal TimescapesKaren EmmerichTrauma, Sentimentality, and Crisis in Literature 5.To Remember and Forgive: The Afterlives of Queen Frederica’s Childtowns in Contemporary Greek FictionVassiliki Kaisidou6. Fashioning a European Past for the National Self: Nikos Themelis’ For Some CompanionshipMaria Akritidou7.The Anxieties of History: Greek Fiction in CrisisGerasimus Katsan Satire and Nostalgia in Popular Culture8.The Use of History for the Denunciation of the Present: Lena Kitsopoulou’s Athanasios Diakos - The ComebackConstantina Georgiadi9.Television Fiction as a Window into a Nation’s Past: The Arbitraries and the Concept of the Neohellene Georgia Aitaki 10.Ancient Greek Mythology and the Culture of the Neohellene in Animated TV SatireJessica Kourniakti 11.Childhood Memories, Family Life, Nostalgia and Historical Trauma in Contemporary Greek Cinema Maria ChalkouPart TwoPrefaceA Visual Journey Through the Lens12.Witnesses for the Future: The Past Reflected in the Despair of the Present Sonia Liza Kenterman13.Still, Short, Cut: The Early Films of Sonia Liza KentermanCharles LockA Literary Echo of the Refugee Crisis 14.What Are They After, Our Souls, Off the Coast of Lesbos?: Reflections on Elias Venezis’ “The Isle of Lios” (1928)Patricia Felisa Barbeito and Vangelis CalotychosHistory from the Storyteller’s Viewpoint15.“Four Hundred Pleats” Amanda Michalopoulou16.1948–2010: Before and After “Think Before You Learn”Sophia Nikolaidou