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090098 VO Refugees, Migrants and Exiles in Greek and Comparative Literature (2022W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften

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Language: English

Examination dates

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  • Monday 10.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Monday 17.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Monday 24.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Monday 07.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Monday 14.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Monday 21.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Monday 28.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Monday 05.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Monday 12.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Monday 09.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Monday 16.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Experiences of foreignness and exile have long been a focal point of literary and cultural studies, and even considered so widespread in modern history as to form not the exception but the very kernel of our subjectivity. This course explores key aspects of the relevant theory (drawing on Edward Said, Theodor Adorno, Julia Kristeva), and moves on to consider how it pertains to modern Greek history and culture. Although its main focus is on literary treatments of immigration, exile and diasporic existence, literature is read as a lens through which to analyze the historical phenomenon of Greek diasporic and immigrational trajectories from the 17th century to the present. Our final meetings will be dedicated to a comparative approach between Greek and Austrian literature, which has also been dominated – since the 19th century – by the thematic complex of home and exile. Greek authors that we will discuss include Ilias Venezis, C.P. Cavafy, Yiannis Ritsos, Stratis Tsirkas, Aris Alexandrou, Dimitris Chatzis, Sotiris Dimitriou, Thanassis Valtinos.

Assessment and permitted materials

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Examination topics

Reading list

Adorno, Theodor 1994. Minima moralia : Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp
Chasiotis, Ioannis, Katsiardi-Hering, Olga 2006 (eds). Οι Έλληνες στη Διασπορά, 15ος – 21ος αιώνας. Athens: Βουλή των Ελλήνων
Clogg, Richard 1999. (ed). The Greek Diaspora in the Twentieth Century. London: Macmillan
Kristeva, Julia 1991. Strangers to Ourselves, New York: Columbia University Press
Said, Edward 2001. Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univ. Pr.
Tziovas, Dimitris 2009. (ed.) Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700. Aldershot: Ashgate

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