[MGSA-L] CYPRUS, FEMALE VOICE AND MEMORY: NIKI MARANGOU_Mon_26 Feb._ with POLINA TAMBAKAKI_King's College London

Beaton, Roderick rod.beaton at kcl.ac.uk
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with POLINA TAMBAKAKI
Niki Marangou Research Fellow, King's College London

Monday 26 February 2018, 17:30
Council Room (K2.29) King’s Building Strand Campus


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This talk will present the results of the workshop ‘Niki Marangou: Cyprus, female voice and memory’ organised in collaboration with the British School at Athens in September 2017, as part of the project The Life and Work of Niki Marangou (1948-2013). After making an overview of the work and life of Marangou, the talk will focus on her last novel Yezoul, which deals with the life of Teresa Makri, Lord Byron’s famous ‘Maid of Athens’. Marangou treated history and fiction in a distinct way, which was informed by modern discussions about female/feminine writing, trauma and narrative, but also by the world and form of the folktale. A highly intertextual writer who used a seemingly naïve expression and simple form, she viewed, as she said, the Hellenic horizon ‘from its most extreme eastern edge’, and through it the whole world: boundless and at the same time circumscribed, like the ‘unimaginable garden’ of loss and sensuality of her poem ‘Roses’.

Polina Tambakaki is Niki Marangou Research Fellow, Centre for Hellenic Studies and Department of Classics, King’s College London. Her research interests include classical reception and intermediality, especially the relationship of poetry to music. Among her articles are: ‘The Homeric Elpenor and those who made il gran rifiuto (Dante’s Inferno, Canto 3) in the poetry of George Seferis: Modernist nekuias and antiheroism’ (CRJ) and ‘Language and music, national identity and Orthodoxy: “The Down-and-out Dervish” by Alexandros Papadiamantis’ (Kampos). Her book The ‘musical poetics’ of George Seferis: A study in the relationship of modernist poetry to music (Domos) was shortlisted for the 2012 Prize of the literary journal Diavazo.

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Roderick Beaton
Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and
Literature
Department of Classics
Director, Centre for Hellenic Studies
King’s College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
UK
tel. 0044 20 7848 2517

Webpage:
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