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Historical Memory in Greece, 1821-1930: Performing the Past in the Present

Historical Memory in Greece, 1821-1930: Performing the Past in the Present

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

General World HistoryGreek History

ISBN10: 0367501031
ISBN13: 9780367501037
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 19 2022
Pages: 398
Weight: 1.59
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book presents a social and cultural history of collective memory in modern Greece during the first century of state independence, contributing to the debate over the relationship between memory and identity.

It discusses how modern Greek society commemorated its distant and recent pasts, both real and imagined, namely antiquity, Byzantium, the Greek Revolution and the Asia Minor Catastrophe; how cultural memory was shaped by the various war experiences (victory, defeat, mass death and mourning, refugeedom); and how memory politics became arenas of social and political strife. Historical painting, monuments, historical pageantry, tableaux vivants, national anniversaries, performances of ancient drama and revivals of ancient games are analyzed as instances where the past was visualized, represented, performed and consumed.

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