Shifting Horizons and Crossing Borders

Angelos Evangelou (PhD, 2013, University of Kent) is Assistant Professor in English Literature and Literary Theory at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His recent publications include Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida (2017) and various articles on borders, border crossing and mental illness in Anglophone literature.

"This is a kaleidoscopic scholarly and poetic treatment of the work of one of the most eloquent and versatile figures of contemporary culture. Stephanos Stephanides’s oeuvre has overrun geographical, linguistic, poetic and genre borders, leaving a legacy for posterity that will also outrun time in the cultural history of the 20th and 21st centuries. The voices in this volume that invoke and celebrate, in polyphony, the achievement of one of the most multifaceted cultural figures of our time comprise a collective of distinguished writers in their own right. A felicitous convergence in one volume of insightful celebrants and their laudable object of celebration." - Djelal Kadir, The Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University and Founding President, International American Studies Association (IASA) "A reconstellation of Stephanos Stephanides’s poetic thought, Shifting Horizons and Crossing Borders engages Stephanides’s world, a world unevenly shared to be reimagined in the present. Each chapter is a thoughtful address to Stephanides’s call for a democratic poetics from below."- Mina Karavanta, Associate Professor of Theory and Global Anglophone Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens"This bold and moving collection is a fitting tribute to the personal, intellectual, and creative generosity of Stephanos Stephanides, whose life and work have touched the lives and work of so many. The essays, poems, critical pieces included in this volume, by writers working in a range of languages and locales, engage with the politics and poetics of identity, memory, translation, and belonging in ways that traverse borders and boundaries of all kinds."-Karen Emmerich, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University and 2024-25 President, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAngelos EvangelouPart 1On Wind, the Sea, and Other Things Fluid1 The ‘Faint Breeze of Truth’ A Memoir-Review of Stephanos Stephanides’s The Wind Under My LipsHelen Goethals2 Odyssey as a State of Mind Reading the Poetry and Prose of Stephanos StephanidesJulia Tsiakiris3 “Caught in the Ebb and Flow” Or the Sublime Indeterminacy of Stephanos Stephanides’s Prose WritingAngelos Evangelou4 Poetics of a Sea Interview with Stephanos StephanidesNorbert BugejaPart 2On Space, Borders and Poetry5 Borders, Partitions and Crossings Broken Memories, Film and the Cold War in TriesteKatia Pizzi6 Notes from the Last Divided Capital of the World Union and Division in Cypriot WritingPetra Tournay-Theodotou7 Invisible Bridges A Chant for Stephanos StephanidesChristopher Merrill8 Moving SpacesAlev AdilPart 3On the Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation9 Going Through Life with the Ancient GreeksSusan Bassnett10 Always in TranslationGJV Prasad11 MediterrEnglish Stephanos Stephanides and Multilingual Creative WritingSara Greaves12 Manifestations of Greek in the English Original of The Wind Under My Lips Translating Back into the Mother TongueDespina Pirketti13 “Karpassia” Hues of Memory and Shifts of TranslationChristine Pagnoulle14 The Dragoman in Arab Anglophone Literature Translation as Treachery and LoyaltyJacqueline JondotPart 4On Memory and/as Writing15 “Karpassia” Anamnesis, Topos, PoeticsStavros Stavrou Karayanni16 A Polity in Poetry? Notes on the Edge(s) of Memory in Stephanos Stephanides’s The Wind Under My LipsNorbert Bugeja17 The Paramithou, the Poet and PherepaphaIrini Savvides18 “Releasing a Story from a Sealed Box” Shaun Johnson’s The Native CommissionerGeoffrey V. DavisPart 5On Poetic Encounters or the Power of Fiction19 Rambling around Salamis & Houses & Night SeaKeki Daruwalla20 InvitationGürgenç Korkmazel21 Kismet & Tales Told between Six Hours and Eight OfficesAmit Ranjan22 Chinese Mothers Excerpt from Novel in Progress, in Honour of Stephanos, My Friend, fellow Scribbler and FantasistDavid Dabydeen23 A Gift, A Rupee, A Touch (Note on “Postcards in Play”) & CloudAnandana KapurIndex