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The Ottoman native as Greek politician and intellectual of the Diaspora

• Καλογεράς, Γιώργος Δ.

The work and life of Konstantinos Kazantzes (Ioannina 1864-Corfu 1927) proves that the relation between Greek diaspora intellectuals, scholars and politicians on the one hand and the dominant ideologies prevalent in the Kingdom of Greece during the 19th century on the other needs to be defined and theorized. A complex network of influences and events formed the diasporic identity of Konstantinos Kazantzes: the struggle over Epeiros andan epeirotic identity, the annexation of the “unredeemed lands” by the Kingdom of Greece, the position of the immigrant in the USA, his identification with America, his identification as a Greek American politician and intellectual in Athens and Ioannina are among them. However, his life and political activities are not the only areas where these complex influences demonstrate themselves. His volume of short stories, Istories tis Patridos mou (Stories of my Motherland) (1910) is an example of how a diaspora writer positions himself within the Greek realistic tradition as well as the US literary movements of romanticism, realism and naturalism; while he imagines himself belonging to what has been called “ethographia” , he also opens up his text to a creative dialogue with the work of such US writers as Hawthorne, Poe and James.

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