Cyprus and its people : nation, identity, and experience in an unimaginable community, 1955-1997 ; [the essays are the reworked contributions of participants at a three-day interdisciplinary conference entitled 'Cyprus and its People : New Interdisciplina

"This edited volume of interdisciplinary essays considers the aspects of nation, identity, and collective experience in the notoriously divided island of Cyprus. The contributors examine the role of international politics - particularly the involvement of Greece and Turkey - and examine the changing relationship between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities since 1955. The book challenges prevailing assumptions about political and cultural identity in Cyprus and theorizes on the prospects for mobilizing more multidimmensional and workable formations of community on Cyprus."--BOOK JACKET Interdisciplinary Perspectives : Difference At The Heart Of Cypriot Identity And Its Study / Vangelis Calotychos -- How Might Turkish And Greek Cypriots See Each Other More Clearly? / Peter Loizos -- An Education In Honor : Patriotism And The Schools Of Cyprus / Rebecca Bryant -- Enosis And Turkish Expansionism : Real Myths Or Mythic Realities? / Yannis Papadakis -- The Role Of Foreign Powers In Structuring Ethnicity And Ethnic Conflict In Cyprus / Adamantia Pollis -- Cyprus In The Post-cold War Environment / Tozun Bahcheli -- An Outline Of A Plan Toward A Comprehensive Settlement Of The Greek-turkish Dispute / Theodore A. Couloumbis & Louis J. Klarevas -- Island Impasse : Peacemaking On Cyprus, 1980-1994 / Glen D. Camp -- (cont.) Nationalisms And Embodied Memory In Northern Cyprus / Moira Killoran -- The Cavafian Poetics Of Diasporic Constitutionalism : Toward A Neo-hellenistic Decentering On The Kyp(riot)ic Experience / Marios Constantinou -- Ideology, Orality, And Textuality : The Tradition Of The Poietarides Of Cyprus / George Syrimis -- Three Generations, Three Identities, Three Parties Within Twentieth-century Cypriot Poetry / Mehmet Yashin -- Communication Across Lands Divided : The Cypriot Communications Landscape / Gary Gumpert & Susan Drucker -- Different Relationships To The Land : Personal Narratives, Political Implications And Future Possibilities / Maria Hadjipavlou-trigeorgi S -- Turks And Greeks Of Cyprus : Psychopolitical Considerations / Vamik D. Volkan -- Greek Cypriot Economic And Political Culture: The Effects Of 1974 / Caesar V. Mavratsas -- We Are Strangers Here - Continuity & Transition : The Imapct Of Displacement And Protracted Exile On The Greek Cypriot Refugees / Roger Zetter. Edited By Vangelis Calotychos. The Essays Collected In This Volume Are The Reworked Contributions Of Participants At A Three-day Interdisciplinary Conference Entitled 'cyprus And Its People : New Interdisciplinary Perspectives' Held At Harvard University On December 1-3, 1994. Includes Bibliographical References. This edited volume of interdisciplinary essays considers the aspects of nation, identity, and collective experience in the notoriously divided island of Cyprus. The contributors examine the role of international politicsparticularly the involvement of Greece and Turkeyand examine the changing relationship between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities since 1955. The book challenges prevailing assumptions about political and cultural identity in Cyprus and theorizes on the prospects for mobilizing more multidimmensional and workable formations of community on Cyprus. The result is a tightly conceived volume, divided into sections of national identity, political possibilities, the location of culture, and social and psychological perspectives. A volume of interdisciplinary essays which considers the aspects of nation, identity and collective experience in the divided island of Cyprus. The book is divided into sections of national identity, political possibilities, the location of culture, and social and psychological perspectives.