P. Papalias & Kenneth A. Loparo 
Genres of Recollection 
Archival Poetics and Modern Greece

This book brings to life the social and textual worlds in which the representation of contemporary Greek historical experience has been passionately debated, building on contemporary research in history and anthropology concerning the social production of the past.

Table of Content

Preface In the Margins of History: Peripheral States, Personal Archives and Historical Rhetorics Beyond Historiography Citing the City: Local Historians and the Possession of the Past Transcriptions of Home: An Archive of Refugee Testimony Reading War: Responsibility in Fiction Editing Migration: The Repatriation of the Story of ‘Amerika’ Epilogue: Textual Ethnogaphy and Historical Anthropology

About the author

PENELOPE C. PAPALIAS is a lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Thessaly in Greece.