Reading Greek Australian Literature through the Paramythi

Dr. Anna Dimitriou gained a PhD in Literary Studies in 2014 from Deakin University and is currently teaching in the Dean’s School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University.

• Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Greek Australian Literature: Between Multiculturalism and World Literature; 2. Diasporic Transformations of the Oral Traditional Paramythi; 3. Dimitris Tsaloumas: Outspoken Visionary Poet or Disillusioned Exile?; 4. Antigone Kefala: Writing against Aphanisis; 5. Fotini Epanomitis’s The Mule’s Foal: A Literature of Transgression; 6. Christos Tsiolkas’s Dead Europe: A Polyphonic Tale of Protest; 7. Helen Koukoutsis’s Cicada Chimes: Shifting between Worlds; 8. Stylianos Charkianakis: Paramythic Transformations through Poetry; 9. Dean kalimnios: Religious Surrealist or Proud Neo-Hellenic Scholar?; 10. Conclusion: Towards a Rereading of Greek Australian Literature; Index

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