Karen Van Dyck directed Hellenic Studies in the Classics Department at Columbia (1988-2016) and has also been an active member of the Institute for Research on Women, Sexuality and Gender (IRWSG), the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS), the European Institute and the Istanbul Global Center. She is the author of Kassandra and the Censors, The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding, The Scattered Papers of Penelope, and Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry that won the London Hellenic Prize (2016). Her essays, translations and poetry have appeared in LARB, the Guardian, World Literature Today, and Tender.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationIntroduction1. Power, Language, and the Discourses of the DictatorshipGreece As a Patient in a CastCensorship and the Question of SilenceDiscursive Styles and Political PracticesTelling the Truth in Eighteen TextsDionysis Savvopoulos's Plastic Flag2. Poetry, Politics, and the Generation of the 1970sThe So-Called Generation of the 1970sLefteris Poulios's Political BeatVasilis Steriadis's Poetry Strip3. Women's Writing and the Sexual Politics of CensorshipThe Figure of Woman under the DictatorshipKyr's LysistrataKassandra's Wolf and Wolf's CassandraThe Social Text of Women's Poetry after the DictatorshipSexual Politics and Poetic Form4. Rhea Galanaki's The Cake and the Deferred DeliveryFiguring (Out) WomanThe Cake is PinkThe Sexual Politics of MimesisWriting As a Pregnant Woman5. Jenny Mastoraki's Tales of the Deep and the Purloined LetterThe Place Where Terrible Things HappenWriting the DreamworkThe Exhibition of ProhibitionThe Purloined Letter and the Woman Reader6. Maria Laina's Hers and the Unreciprocated LookThe Look of CensorshipToward an Alternative Grammar of SelfFinding the Ground of Love ElsewhereEpilogueWorks ConsultedIndex

"Moving with ease across a wide range of critical approaches, Van Dyck writes as lucidly and elegantly as she translates. At once bold and meticulous, her book will be enjoyed by students of literature and of Greece-a must for courses in comparative literature, cultural studies, and women's studies."-Margaret Alexiou

Karen Van Dyck directed Hellenic Studies in the Classics Department at Columbia (1988-2016) and has also been an active member of the Institute for Research on Women, Sexuality and Gender (IRWSG), the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS), the European Institute and the Istanbul Global Center. She is the author of Kassandra and the Censors, The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding, The Scattered Papers of Penelope, and Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry that won the London Hellenic Prize (2016). Her essays, translations and poetry have appeared in LARB, the Guardian, World Literature Today, and Tender.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationIntroduction1. Power, Language, and the Discourses of the DictatorshipGreece As a Patient in a CastCensorship and the Question of SilenceDiscursive Styles and Political PracticesTelling the Truth in Eighteen TextsDionysis Savvopoulos's Plastic Flag2. Poetry, Politics, and the Generation of the 1970sThe So-Called Generation of the 1970sLefteris Poulios's Political BeatVasilis Steriadis's Poetry Strip3. Women's Writing and the Sexual Politics of CensorshipThe Figure of Woman under the DictatorshipKyr's LysistrataKassandra's Wolf and Wolf's CassandraThe Social Text of Women's Poetry after the DictatorshipSexual Politics and Poetic Form4. Rhea Galanaki's The Cake and the Deferred DeliveryFiguring (Out) WomanThe Cake is PinkThe Sexual Politics of MimesisWriting As a Pregnant Woman5. Jenny Mastoraki's Tales of the Deep and the Purloined LetterThe Place Where Terrible Things HappenWriting the DreamworkThe Exhibition of ProhibitionThe Purloined Letter and the Woman Reader6. Maria Laina's Hers and the Unreciprocated LookThe Look of CensorshipToward an Alternative Grammar of SelfFinding the Ground of Love ElsewhereEpilogueWorks ConsultedIndex

"Moving with ease across a wide range of critical approaches, Van Dyck writes as lucidly and elegantly as she translates. At once bold and meticulous, her book will be enjoyed by students of literature and of Greece-a must for courses in comparative literature, cultural studies, and women's studies."-Margaret Alexiou

Karen Van Dyck directed Hellenic Studies in the Classics Department at Columbia (1988-2016) and has also been an active member of the Institute for Research on Women, Sexuality and Gender (IRWSG), the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS), the European Institute and the Istanbul Global Center. She is the author of Kassandra and the Censors, The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding, The Scattered Papers of Penelope, and Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry that won the London Hellenic Prize (2016). Her essays, translations and poetry have appeared in LARB, the Guardian, World Literature Today, and Tender.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TranslationIntroduction1. Power, Language, and the Discourses of the DictatorshipGreece As a Patient in a CastCensorship and the Question of SilenceDiscursive Styles and Political PracticesTelling the Truth in Eighteen TextsDionysis Savvopoulos's Plastic Flag2. Poetry, Politics, and the Generation of the 1970sThe So-Called Generation of the 1970sLefteris Poulios's Political BeatVasilis Steriadis's Poetry Strip3. Women's Writing and the Sexual Politics of CensorshipThe Figure of Woman under the DictatorshipKyr's LysistrataKassandra's Wolf and Wolf's CassandraThe Social Text of Women's Poetry after the DictatorshipSexual Politics and Poetic Form4. Rhea Galanaki's The Cake and the Deferred DeliveryFiguring (Out) WomanThe Cake is PinkThe Sexual Politics of MimesisWriting As a Pregnant Woman5. Jenny Mastoraki's Tales of the Deep and the Purloined LetterThe Place Where Terrible Things HappenWriting the DreamworkThe Exhibition of ProhibitionThe Purloined Letter and the Woman Reader6. Maria Laina's Hers and the Unreciprocated LookThe Look of CensorshipToward an Alternative Grammar of SelfFinding the Ground of Love ElsewhereEpilogueWorks ConsultedIndex

"Moving with ease across a wide range of critical approaches, Van Dyck writes as lucidly and elegantly as she translates. At once bold and meticulous, her book will be enjoyed by students of literature and of Greece-a must for courses in comparative literature, cultural studies, and women's studies."-Margaret Alexiou