Traces of Hellenism and Perpetual Hope: Religious Faith in Greek American Return Narratives

dc.contributor.advisor	Moffitt, Jennifer Leigh
dc.contributor.author	Robinson, Corinna
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-10T19:20:21Z
dc.date.available	2022-05-10T19:20:21Z
dc.date.issued	2022-05
dc.description	Honors Thesis Spring 2022
dc.description.abstract	During the 1960s, Greek American writers were particularly interested in exploring their cultural heritage, leading many to produce “return narratives,” stories of a return to their ethnic, pre-American homeland. These narratives often emphasize religious faith, insisting upon its centrality to Greek identity. My project focuses on the roles of Orthodox Christianity and Hellenic polytheism within two such return narratives: Daphne Athas’s Greece by Prejudice (1963) and Elias Kulukundis’s The Feasts of Memory (1967). Athas and Kulukundis return to Greece within distinct contexts and experience religion in contrasting ways, but both authors ultimately suggest that by reconciling Greece’s hybrid religious landscape, they are in turn able to reconcile their hybrid cultural backgrounds.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11416/615
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Florida Southern College	en_US
dc.subject	Greek American literature	en_US
dc.subject	Religion	en_US
dc.subject	Return in literature	en_US
dc.subject	Athas, Daphne, 1923-2020	en_US
dc.subject	Kulukundis, Elias, 1937-	en_US
dc.title	Traces of Hellenism and Perpetual Hope: Religious Faith in Greek American Return Narratives	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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