Greek literature from Cyprus in the 21st century: identities, borders, insularities in the Eastern Mediterranean

After multiple foreign dominations, Cyprus gained its independence in 1960. Largely unknown, the traumatic history of this de facto divided island generates, from one generation to the next, creative storytelling inspired by oral testimonies and private and/or public archive documents. The recent publication of young Greek writers from Cyprus in French translation invites us to examine the dynamics of a literary field that is both polycentric and multilingual. This colloquium aims to examine the last two generations of Greek-language prose writers and poets, whose works resonate with a rich linguistic and cultural mosaic, in order to question the relationship to identities and spatialities specific to this fractured island in the eastern Mediterranean, situated on the borders of three continents and numerous millennia-old civilizations.

Organization : Stéphane Sawas (CERLOM)

The program will be published shortly.