Greek Diaspora and Hybrid Identities: Transnational and Transgender Perspectives in Two novels: Loaded, by Christos Tsiolkas (Australia) and Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides (USA)
There are numerous texts in modern Greek literature, or literature written by authors of Greek descent, in which migration is related to the issue of identity. It is the subject of multiple, especially cinematographic and literary, representations. The aim of this article is to examine this problema...
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| フォーマット: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 言語: | Français |
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Transtext(e)s Transcultures
2013
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | There are numerous texts in modern Greek literature, or literature written by authors of Greek descent, in which migration is related to the issue of identity. It is the subject of multiple, especially cinematographic and literary, representations. The aim of this article is to examine this problematic question through the comparative analysis of two novels: Loaded, Christos Tsiolkas’s first novel published in 1995, and, the more well-known, Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, winner of the 2002 Pullitzer Prize. Both novels narrate a quest for identity undertaken by their respective protagonists, Ari and Calliopi, both of Greek descent, the former living in Australia and the latter in America. Exploring the experience of a radical rethinking of identity, the two writers associate ethnicity and gender in the narration. In many ways, both characters, Ari and Calliopi, seem to be caught in a series of identity dilemmas, governed by a seemingly binary dialectic: Greekness versus Americaness or Australianness, multiculturalism versus hellenism, man versus woman, homosexual versus heterosexual, normal versus marginal, essentialism versus constructionism and existentialism, determinism versus free will. By comparing the two novels, the article analyses the construction of gender and ethnic identity and highlights the conceptions on which they are based. |
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