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Arapoglou, Eleftheria. A Bridge Over the Balkans: Demetra Vaka Brown and the Tradition of “Women’s Orients.” Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011.
“This book is a critical study of Demetra Vaka Brown, one of the most significant Greek American writers of the turn of the last century, framed within the fields of “Orientalism” and cultural studies. Offering an overview of her life and career with analytical readings of her major works, the book’s focus is on the role of Vaka Brown as cultural agent: at once a white female and an immigrant of Greek descent and a former citizen of Ottoman Turkey who worked as a journalist and author in the United States, writing in English and contributing her work to mainstream publications. The book presents the identity and spatial politics of Vaka Brown, recovering the discursive techniques employed in her identification processes and assessing the significance of her cultural agency in the context of the dominant themes and preoccupations of the Orientalist tradition. Vaka Brown is further examined as a case study which provides historically informed and cultural perspectives on the complexities and ambiguities of women’s imperial positionings at the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries in the East and West. By exploring the author’s predicament in constructing an authorial and narrative identity in the interstices between the East and the West, modernity and tradition, ethnicity and nationalism, the book articulates a nuanced historical and cultural reading of Vaka Brown’s writing and ultimately probes the alternative responses Vaka Brown’s texts offer to the “scaffoldings” of nationalism.”
Isaakyan, Irina, and Anna Triandafyllidou. “Transatlantic Repatriation: Stigma Management of Second-Generation Italian and Greek American Women ‘Returning Home.’” European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 22, no. 2, Apr. 2019, pp. 180–194, doi:10.1177/1367549418823058.
Based on 30 narrative-biographic interviews with second-generation Greek and Italian women who have migrated from the United States to their ‘ancestral homelands’ of Greece and Italy, our article explores nuances of their stigma management by focusing on the interaction between their pre-repatriation past and post-repatriation present and the spaces of inclusion and exclusion. Adopting the method of narrative-biographic analysis, we present three detailed case studies of repatriated women – organized as composite biographies – to illuminate from different angles the process of stigma management and the phenomenon of stigma mobility. Highlighting the dynamics of the reproduction of the diasporic patriarchy through repatriation to the ‘ancestral homeland’, we introduce and elaborate on the concept ‘nativity voucher’ in reference to ethno-cultural resources that repatriated people use to facilitate their spaces of inclusion.
Patrona, Theodora D. 2015. “Forgotten Female Voices of the Greek Diaspora in the Unites States.”[pdf] The Journal of Modern Hellenism 31, pp. 87-100.
Patrona, Theodora. “Ex-centric Mythic Wanderings in Catherine Temma Davidson’s The Priest Fainted (1998).” Ex-Centric Narratives: Identity, Multivocality and Cross-Culturalism. Ed. Smatie Yemenedzi-Malathouni, Tatiani Rapatzikou, and Elefteria Arapoglou. Bethesda, MD: Αcademica Press, 2012. 233-248.
Patrona, Theodora. “The Female Ethnic Writer’s Return to the Ancestral Hearth: Greece and Italy Revisited.” Mobile Narratives. Ed. Eleftheria Arapoglou, Monika Fodor, and Jopi Nymann. London: Routledge, 2013. 187-198.
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