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- Title
Demetrios Capetanakis: a Greek poet (coming out) in England.
- Authors
Papanikolaou, Dimitris
- Abstract
The homosexual undertones of Demetrios Capetanakis's English writings become evident when the work is seen in the context of the British literary circle that was instrumental in its publication. However, reading Capetanakis's poems as a 'coming out' narrative leads us to assess the mismatching interpretations of gender and sexuality in Greece and the West and the larger complications of identity and identifications. It is suggested that, in Capetanakis's work written in English, what seems at first a liberating expression of the 'true self' through writing can instead be viewed as positing the problem of the idea of a stable, unified and solid identity.
- Subjects
HOMOSEXUALITY in literature; CAPETANAKIS, Demetrios, 1912-1944; ENGLISH literature; MODERN Greek poets; IDENTITY (Philosophical concept); GENDER identity
- Publication
Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, 2006, Vol 30, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
0307-0131
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1179/030701306X115823