Open AccessThe Transformations of Greek Working-Class Fiction from the Interwar Period to the Present
Author(s) -
Vasiliki Petsa,
Sofia Zisimopoulou,
Anastasia Natsina,
Ioannis Dimitrakakis
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of working-class studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2475-4765
DOI - 10.13001/jwcs.v6i2.6825
Subject(s) - interwar period , inflection , theme (computing) , style (visual arts) , period (music) , world war ii , class (philosophy) , working class , first world war , history , literature , aesthetics , art , political science , politics , ancient history , law , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology , archaeology , computer science , operating system
Surveying a large corpus of Modern Greek fiction from the interwar years to the decade of the financial crisis (2010-2020) we set out to delineate the national inflection of ‘working-class fiction’ along the axes of theme and style as well as answerability, i.e. the engagement with working-class interests in distinct periods (interwar years, WWII and postwar, Metapolitefsi and beyond). Characterized by quantitative and aesthetic variability, the Greek version of the genre is shown to engage actively with topical contextual issues as well as with changing imperatives of authorial commitment and the shifting composition of the working class.