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Reinventing Paradise: the Greek Crisis and contemporary British travel narratives
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In the second half of the twentieth century Greece became a subject for travel writers in search of a European ‘Paradise’. But ‘Hell was also to be found in Greece, often in the form of frustrations over allegedly ‘non-European’ standards of living, facilities, and attitudes. A sample of travel narratives published between 2006 and 2014 suggests the extent to which, in the light of the ‘Greek Crisis’, twenty-first-century writers are abandoning these formerly conventional themes. There is now the potential for the realignment of narratives, with Greece becoming the Hell, rather than the Heaven, of Europe.
Title: Reinventing Paradise: the Greek Crisis and contemporary British travel narratives
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In the second half of the twentieth century Greece became a subject for travel writers in search of a European ‘Paradise’.
But ‘Hell was also to be found in Greece, often in the form of frustrations over allegedly ‘non-European’ standards of living, facilities, and attitudes.
A sample of travel narratives published between 2006 and 2014 suggests the extent to which, in the light of the ‘Greek Crisis’, twenty-first-century writers are abandoning these formerly conventional themes.
There is now the potential for the realignment of narratives, with Greece becoming the Hell, rather than the Heaven, of Europe.
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