A DIALOGUE OF PAST AND PRESENT: THE CONSTRUCTION AND RE PRESENTATION OF GREEK NATIONAL IDENTITY, Leonard A. STONE

Authors : Leonard A STONE

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Publication Date : 1999-03-01

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Abstract :This article briefly explores the parameters of the process of Greek national identification and the practice of self-identification in specific social, political and global conditions. The construction of a history of Greek national identity is the construction of a meaningful universe of events and narratives, for a collectively defined subject. What has supposedly occurred in the past produces a relation between ‘what came before’ and ‘what is’. Such a process can be interpreted as a dialogue between past and present. A dialogue which, employing the Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin’s perspective, achieves a voice and point or points of view. An implicit dialogue, no less, of responses to actual, imagined or potential global forces. Such a dialogue can be understood at the level of structural conditions in which shifting identities are identified, assimilated, marginalised or rejected.
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