Greeks without Greece

Contents List of tables and figures;Acknowledgements;Part I: Introduction Introduction;Greeks without Greece: overview;Terminology;Methodology and sources;Structure of the book;1 â" The Greeks of Turkey;Istanbul;Imbros;Greece;Part II: Local Homelands and National Belonging 2 â" Patr­da as a local metaphor;Patr­da as a local metaphor;Through the looking glass: continuity, invention, imposition;The âusable pastâ: the everyday life of national identity;3 â" More than simply Hellenic: Belonging and inclusive particularity;The Greeks of Turkey: a diaspora community?;The Helleno-Romaic dilemma;âThe Romi³s is one thing and the Hellene is anotherâ;Inclusive particularity (1): Pol­tes and Byzantium;Inclusive particularity (2): Imvri³tes and Ancient Athens;Expatriate protoselves;Conclusions;4 â" Without barbarians: Turks and Ellad­tes;Ethnicity as an âinterpretive prismâ;Good Turk, bad Turks;Nominal and experiential Turks;Privileged knowledge (1): the âbad Turksâ;Privileged knowledge (2): the âgood Turkâ;Conclusions;Part III: National and Transnational Histories 5 â" Everyday multidirectional memory;Holocaust memory;Mediated memory;An everyday history of multidirectional memory;6 â" âThe Third Fallâ: Commemorations and national history;âThe 300 who stayedâ: thinking analogically;Commemorating the 1955 Istanbul Riots;Commemorating the 1453 Fall of Constantinople;1453 and 1821;1453 and 1955;Transcending the national paradigm: the Federation of Constantinopolitans;Conclusions;7 â" âKristallnacht in Constantinopleâ: Parallel and analogous histories Parallel histories: Armenians and Kurds;Analogous histories: Jews and Nazis;Asymmetric histories: the Western Thracian minority;From âpogromâ to âgenocideâ: classifying the persecution of the Greeks of Turkey;Transcultural memory in personal testimony;Transnational nationalism?;Conclusions;Part IV: Homelands New and Old 8 â" Welcome to G¶k§eada: The Greek return to Imbros;Between âNew Imbrosâ and âOld Imbrosâ;Confronting âthe real Imbrosâ: challenges and prospects;âNative touristsâ: belonging in the Imvrian return;âWhen you return to your patr­daâ: the second generation;Conclusions;Conclusions Inclusive particularity;The past as a critical mirror;Excavating and backfilling the past;Everyday multidirectionality;Appendix: Tables Table 1 â" List of interviewees: Pol­tes;Table 2 â" List of interviewees: Imvri³tes;Table 3 â" List of interviewees: Second generation;Table 4 â" Decline in Greek-speaking/Orthodox Christian populations of Istanbul and Imbros;Glossary