Minnet går gränsvakt. Fyra poeter ur 1970-talets grekiska diktargeneration

Sammanfattning: The primary aim of the present study is to reveal the creative awakening of Michalis Ganas, Maria Kirtzaki, Tzeni Mastoraki and Kostas Papageorgiou, four poets of the Greek 1970s Generation. All four poets were born during the decade of the 1940s. The thesis approaches the poets entire authorship from their debut, end of 1960s beginning of 1970s, until the present day, to distinguish a number of common trends and analogies in the light of personal and historical events in Greece such as the Asia Minor Disaster, World War Two, The Civil War 1946-1949 and the Dictatorship 1967–1974. An important theme discussed is the poets struggle with language and their links to the concept of ”homeland” as well as their feelings of exile and estrangement caused by the trauma of their own and their families´ experience of Greek history.