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 - The Greeks of Turkey;Istanbul;Imbros;Greece;Part II: Local Homelands and National Belonging 2 - Patrida as a local metaphor;Patrida as a local metaphor;Through the looking glass: continuity, invention, imposition;The 'usable past': the everyday life of national identity;3 - More than simply Hellenic: Belonging and inclusive particularity;The Greeks of Turkey: a diaspora community?;The Helleno-Romaic dilemma;'The Romios is one thing and the Hellene is another';Inclusive particularity (1): Polites and Byzantium;Inclusive particularity (2): Imvriotes and Ancient Athens;Expatriate protoselves;Conclusions;4 - Without barbarians: Turks and Elladites;Ethnicity as an 'interpretive prism';Good Turk, bad Turks;Nominal and experiential Turks;Privileged knowledge (1): the 'bad Turks';Privileged knowledge (2): the 'good Turk';Conclusions;Part III: National and Transnational Histories 5 - Everyday multidirectional memory;Holocaust memory;Mediated memory;An everyday history of multidirectional memory;6 - 'The Third Fall': Commemorations and national history;'The 300 who stayed': 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 - 'Kristallnacht in Constantinople': Parallel and analogous histories Parallel histories: Armenians and Kurds;Analogous histories: Jews and Nazis;Asymmetric histories: the Western Thracian minority;From 'pogrom' to 'genocide': classifying the persecution of the Greeks of Turkey;Transcultural memory in personal testimony;Transnational nationalism?;Conclusions;Part IV: Homelands New and Old 8 - Welcome to Gokçeada: The Greek return to Imbros;Between 'New Imbros' and 'Old Imbros';Confronting 'the real Imbros': challenges and prospects;'Native tourists': belonging in the Imvrian return;'When you return to your patrida': the second generation;Conclusions;Conclusions Inclusive particularity;The past as a critical mirror;Excavating and backfilling the past;Everyday multidirectionality;Appendix: Tables Table 1 - List of interviewees: Polites;Table 2 - List of interviewees: Imvriotes;Table 3 - List of interviewees: Second generation;Table 4 - Decline in Greek-speaking/Orthodox Christian populations of Istanbul and Imbros;Glossary