REPRESENTATIONS OF REFUGEES AND LOCAL PEOPLE IN GREEK POETRY DURING THE EUROPEAN MIGRANT CRISIS

Authors

  • Christina Linardaki Researcher, Advanced Media Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejlll.v5i1.263

Keywords:

refugees, European migrant crisis, Greece, poetry, CDA

Abstract

This paper looks into Greek poetry written, in its bulk, during the years of the European migrant crisis (2014-2018) for ways in which refugees and locals are presented. The poems are analyzed in the framework of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in terms of the social language, situated meanings, intertextuality, figured worlds and discourses they contain (Gee, 2011). Greek poets see in refugees a heroic part of humanity and a manifestation of the human struggle and will to live; thus, they are sanctifying them, presenting them as martyrs. Moreover, Greek poets see locals and Westerners as insensitive villains who are after their eradication. This is obviously a distorted and hyperbolic point of view, which however may hide true aspects of reality in its exaggeration.

Author Biography

  • Christina Linardaki, Researcher, Advanced Media Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
    Christina Linardaki (BA English Literature from the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, MA Communications and New Journalism from the Open University of Cyprus, and Diploma in Translation by the Manchester College of Arts & Technology) is a researcher at the Advanced Media Institute, Cyprus. She is interested in the relationship between literature and other fields of social science. She has published two research papers: “From poem and song to cultural diplomacy: Challenges and opportunities for place branding and tourism promotion” at Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 16(4), 304-315; “The self on the wane: understatement, making-faces and #nofilter selfies versus three autobiographical poems” at Research Journal of Language, Literature and Humanities, Vol. 7(2), 1-8.

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List of poetry collections:

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Andrikopoulou, Niki (2016), O mov anthropos [The purple man], Athens: Gavriilides.

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Filis, Tellos (2018), To eschato erma [The ultimate ballast], Athens: Polis.

Frangos, Giorgos (2018), Floisvos synefon [Roaring of clouds], Athens: Vakxikon.

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Published

2021-06-18

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2021)

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Articles