Mackridge, Peter and Eleni Yannakakis, eds. Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual. Oxford: Legenda / European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2004. xii, 207 p.

ISBN 1900755858 pbk; 9781900755856 pbk

Contents: Peter Mackridge and Eleni Yannakakis, "Introduction: Greek Fiction in the Age of Globalization" (pp. 1-21).

Part 1: An Overview of Tendencies and Perspectives. Chapter 1: Dimitris Tziovas, "Centrifugal Topographies, Cultural Allegories and Metafictional Strategies in Greek Fiction since 1974" (pp. 24-49).

Part 2: Shifting Spaces, Drifting Identities. Chapter 2: Vangelis Hatzivassiliou, "The Greeks in the Balkans, the Balkans in Greece: Greek Fiction's First Steps towards Acknowledging the Other Next Door". Translated by Eleni Dalabira and Peter Mackridge (pp. 52-58); Chapter 3: Vangelis Calotychos, "The Alpha Males and Worker Bees of the Balkan Honeycomb: Economic Migrants in Contemporary Greek Fiction" (pp. 59-70); Chapter 4: Mary Mike, "The Dislocated Self in a Global Situation" (pp. 71-80); Chapter 5: Eleni Yannakakis, "Geographical and Ideological Wanderings: Greek Fiction of the 1990s" (pp. 81-92).

Part 3: The Global as Local. Chapter 6: Venetia Apostolidou, "From the Underworld to Other Worlds: Political Attitudes in Contemporary Greek Fiction" (pp. 94-102); Chapter 7: Vangelis Athanassopoulos, "'The Ultimate Art of Our Greek Corruption': The Global as an Experimental Expansion of the Local in Yorgis Yatromanolakis's Fiction" (pp. 103-111).

Part 4: Fragmented Worlds. Chapter 8: Maria Kakavoulia, "In and Out of the Text: Games across Genres in Modern Greek Fiction" (pp. 114-123); Chapter 9: Anastasia Natsina, "The Individual within Multiple Worlds in Greek Short Stories since 1974" (pp. 124-133); Chapter 10: Dimitris Païvanas, "Ideology's Discontents in Thanassis Valtinos's Data from the Decade of the Sixties" (pp. 134-149).

Part 5: New Treatments of Old Themes. Chapter 11: Angela Kastrinaki, "The Portrait of the Artist in the Late Twentieth Century" (pp. 152-163); Chapter 12: Argiro Mantoglou, "Angels in the Storm: The Portrait of the Woman Writer in Three Contemporary Novels by Women" (pp. 164-172); Chapter 13: Konstantinos Kosmas, "The Disunification of the Nation: Contemporary Greek Historical Fiction and Collective Identities". Translated by Peter Mackridge (pp. 173-190).

Bibliography (pp. 191-204).