%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®Only Stones and Stories Remain¡¯: Greek American (Travel) Writing about Greece
%A Kindinger
%A Evangelia
%J COPAS : Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
%D 2011
%I University of Regensburg
%X Since the early 1960s, numerous Greek American authors of the second and third generation have published personal accounts on their travels to Greece. In this paper, I argue that these authors adopt a double perspective, being both ¡®visitors¡¯ and ¡®locals¡¯ who are affiliated with both the ¡®here¡¯ and the ¡®there.¡¯ Returnees often experience a feeling of belatedness when arriving in their ancestral homeland. They overcome this feeling by inscribing themselves into the foreign but - paradoxically - familiar past, and by making a contribution to the Greek diaspora. Although the intersections of travel writing and return writing are strong, in this paper, return writing will be defined as a subgenre of both diaspora writing and travel writing.
%U http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/136/162