C.20 - an international journal, issue no.2. The Writer as Expatriate. Beverley Farmer, Maria Strani-Potts and other writers on Greece.

Issue 2 contents

Read here, my essay: "Insiders and outsiders: Beverley Farmer, Maria Strani-Potts and other expatriate or “displaced” writers".

How did diverse writers about Greece approach interpersonal relationships, the tensions of family and community life, whilst preserving their individual sense of identity and belonging? What were the joys and resentments which preoccupied these very different women, two of them Australian, one American, one British and one Greek?

Works discussed:

Gillian Bouras, Aphrodite and the Others, 2010.

Linda Fagioli-Katsiotas, The Nifi, A True Story, 2015.

Beverley Farmer, A Body of Water, A Year’s Notebook, 1990.

Beverley Farmer, Collected Stories, 1996.

Beverley Farmer, The Bone House, Essays, 2005.

Beverley Farmer, The House in the Light, 1995.

Theresa Nicholas, Suntouched, A Dark Comedy on a Greek Island, 2011.

Maria Strani-Potts, The Cat of Portovecchio: Corfu Tales, 2007.

Maria Strani-Potts, When the Sun Goes Down, Island Stories, 2013.

Maria Strani-Potts, To Poulima tis Panoraias,2007.

Anna Weale, Passage to Paxos, 1981.


A version of this essay/paper was given at the Writers, Dreamers, Drifters and the Aegean conference on Hydra, 25-26 September, 2018.
.