Greece From Junta to Crisis by Dimitris Tziovas;

Author:Dimitris Tziovas;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

Conclusion

During the post-junta period there was a pendulum-like swing between the relative popularity of poetry and prose, with prose predominating in the 1990s and early 2000s, due to the commodification of literature, and poetry showing signs of recovery just before the onset of and during the crisis. After its ‘painful transition to politicization’, to recall the title of the 1976/7 discussion mentioned earlier, Greek fiction moved to new territories, opened up by the crisis of representation, documentary metafiction and its preoccupation with the increasing diversity of Greek society. The illusion of realist transparency was irrevocably lost and novels became opaque, multilayered and multivocal, thus resolving the tension between experimental writing and storytelling, literary and popular fiction. The fictionalization of the past redefined and shaped historiographic and public agendas by adopting a bottom-up approach (private archives and oral testimonies) and challenging hegemonic versions of history. The years between the fall of the junta and the crisis could also be described as a period of fascination with modernity and of the transition from the holistic notion of a literary tradition to the construction of an eclectic canon along (post)modernist lines. It is a period of divergent aesthetic visions, with no literary or critical manifestos.

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